NJ school staffers allegedly held ‘dress as your favorite pedophile’ parties: lawsuit

NY Post ^ | 12/03/25 | Zoe Hussain

[Libloather]

A group of New Jersey school staffers allegedly hosted and participated in disturbing “pedophile parties,” including a paraprofessional accused of having an inappropriate relationship with an underage student, according to a recently resurfaced lawsuit.

The Pinelands Regional School District paraprofessional and other staff members participated in more than one dress as your “favorite pedophile” party around August 2023, according to the suit filed in Ocean County by an ex-district employee obtained by The Post.

More details on what the parties entailed were not included in the court doc. Still, the revolting theme alone proved the male paraprofessional displayed an “egregious glorification of pedophiles,” Melissa Pomphrey, a former special education teacher at the district, said in her wrongful termination lawsuit.

Pomphrey accused the paraprofessional of being a pedophile himself and said he “would frequently invite this underage student to hang out with him after school,” according to the lawsuit, which was recirculated by multiple news outlets this week.

The staff member also endangered the female student, who was a junior at the school, by bringing her around an 18-year-old autistic male student in a special needs classroom who could be “sexually violent toward females,” the ex-teacher alleged.

Pomphrey said she reported the shocking get-togethers to the administration, as well as what she believed to be an illegal relationship between the female student and the paraprofessional, according to the suit.

After conducting a “sham” investigation, Pinelands Regional administrators reassigned Pomphrey to a middle school classroom from her high school class, which was widely considered a demotion, while the alleged creep staffer stayed employed, court documents said.

“Therefore, it was abundantly clear that Defendants [Pinelands’ administrators] assigned Plaintiff (Pomphrey) this classroom in pure retaliation for her complaints of the unlawful, unsafe, and neglectful environment fostered by Defendants,” the lawsuit claimed.

[Omnivore-Dan]

Very familiar with the Jersey Shore and it’s mosquitos and “green heads” My inlaws had a place in Manahawkin on the bay. Crabbing was fantastic if you could stand the bugs. Greenies are just horrible, and the horse flies are even worse. You practically have to bathe in OFF. Windy days were better.