NJ teacher got pregnant by student she ‘groomed’ — and broke teen’s heart by aborting the baby

New York Post ^ | February 12, 2026 | Emily Crane

[Morgana]

A twisted New Jersey teacher who groomed and abused two students ended up getting pregnant by one of the teens — then broke his heart by getting an abortion, it was revealed as she was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Julie Rizzitello, who was an English teacher at Wall Township High School, had told one of her victims that she’d gotten pregnant after convincing him to have unprotected sex with her on his birthday, it was revealed in court Wednesday, according to Jersey Shore Online.

The 37-year-old mom later informed the teenager, whom she’d groomed as a freshman, that she’d terminated the pregnancy.

“Not only does he have to deal with the fact that he’s groomed throughout his entire high school years, that he was preyed upon by his teacher who he loved and trusted … that he was sexually abused by this teacher,” Monmouth County Judge Jill Grace O’Malley told the hearing of the young victim.

“But now he’s struggling to come to terms with the fact that this individual had an abortion and [he] wasn’t comfortable with it. This is the psychological impact — the devastation.”

The disgraced teacher, who pleaded guilty last year to two counts of second-degree sexual assault, abused each of her victims for months at a time, prosecutors said.

The first boy — with whom she got pregnant — was a freshman when she started grooming him in 2017.

She told him she dreamed of having sex with him, which they then did multiple times in 2017 and 2018.

“This is grooming. It is traditional grooming that I see every week here in this courthouse. This is the behavior of a standard sexual predator. You’re no different,” the judge told the teacher, according to Jersey Shore Online.

[lastchance]

I had not even thought about the very real chance of STDs. That adds a whole new dimension of wrong to the whole sordid story.

[lastchance]

I have been quite temperate in my replies, trust me on this.

[an amused spectator]

😂😂😂

[nickcarraway]

By the way, United States courts have uniformly held that boys, no matter what age, have to pay child support for a child they sired, even if the mother was convicted of statutory rape, or just rape.

[nickcarraway]

Hermesmann v. Seyer (State of Kansas ex rel. Hermesmann v. Seyer, 847 P.2d 1273 (Kan. 1993)) set the precedent-setting Kansas case in which Colleen Hermesmann successfully argued that a woman is entitled to sue the father of her child for child support even if conception occurred as a result of a criminal act committed by the woman. Shane Seyer was 12-years-old when he impregnated Colleen Hermesmann, and she later took a plea bargain to a lesser charge than she was originally arrested with. In 1991, the state of Kansas took the then 16-year-old boy to court in the name of the mother to get child support. He appealed, and the Kansas Supreme Court ruled that any crime committed by the mother has no relevance to child support.

Although this was in Kansas, it has been considered a nationwide precedent, and non other court has dissented from it.

[metmom]

What an abomination!

[21twelve]

I heard of a male (married) college professor that had an affair with one of his students. He lost his job, his publishing for some ground-breaking research, his wife and family, etc. He was way up there in the ranks.

They said he was working at some computer repair store.

I mean sure, some of those young college gals are good looking, but to lose it all just for some sex?