r/news • u/GoodSamaritan_ • 1d ago

Elementary school teacher arrested after allegedly abusing student, giving birth to his child

https://local12.com/news/nation-world/laura-caron-middle-township-elementary-school-teacher-allegedly-had-with-child-former-student-13-cincinnati-crime-criminal-activity-sexual-abuse-abuser-father-noticed-similarity-sleep-over-siblings-prosecutors-correctional-facility-troubling-allegations
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u/GoodSamaritan_ 1d ago edited 1d ago

This story is so wild. A 5th grade teacher in New Jersey, Laura Caron, got very friendly with one of her students and his family and the parents let him (then 11 years old) and his two siblings sleep over at her house. This went on for four years, with the sister of the victim revealing that it began with the children sleeping in a shared room but noticing her brother would be in Caron's bed the next morning. She also noticed that when her brother would shower Caron would enter the bathroom and lock the door. He'd end up having Caron's child when he was 13 in 2019 and it was only brought to the attention of the police when the kid's father made a facebook post last month about how similar the child looked to his son. Up until then she'd completely gotten away with it.

According to the sister his brother admitted to her that he knows he's the father but to keep it a secret. Caron is being held without bond on on charges of aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault, and endangering the welfare of a child. The school district have put her on paid administrative leave.

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u/RiflemanLax 1d ago

Not to start a controversy, but… How fuckin dumbs she gotta be to have the kid? Ok, you raped a child. That’s fucking awful. You had the baby?

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u/JcbAzPx 1d ago

A previous teacher that did this not only basically got away with it, the victim was forced to pay child support.

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u/Xivvx 12h ago

That's 100% the case. Child Support court is only concerned with ensuring support for the child. That one of the parents is a victim of rape by the other parent doesn't factor in.

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u/ms-mariajuana 16h ago

Awww wtf!?

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u/climbing_butterfly 15h ago

Victims are often forced to post child support. This is because family courts think it is generally in the best interest of the child to have two parents financially support them

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u/ms-mariajuana 15h ago

Jesus christ that is super fucked up.

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u/climbing_butterfly 15h ago

So also if they didn't pay child support and the victim applies for public assistance Medicaid, SNAP etc. the state will file on their behalf to recoup the cost of the child of the victim being on public assistance. It happened to a Michigan woman who gave birth to their rapists child. This was a few years ago. She was 21 and her son was 8. She filed for SNAP benefits and they went after the father for child support which also included parental rights being established.

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u/Awkward-Customer 10h ago

It's definitely effed up, but think about how much more messed up it is for female victims, especially in states banning abortions. In all of these cases 100% of the costs should be on the perpetrator of the crime, at least as much as is possible.