Posted on 10/05/2006 8:01:19 AM PDT by freepatriot32
NEW YORK - A middle school math teacher was arrested on charges he raped a 14-year-old student when she went to his home for tutoring, police said Wednesday.
Horace Bedeau, a teacher at Intermediate School 392 in Brooklyn, was charged with second-degree rape and criminal sexual acts for engaging in sexual encounters with the student in his kitchen and his son's bedroom in August 2006, according to the city schools' commissioner of investigation.
Another student, a boy, was in the apartment at the time but was separated from Bedeau and the 14-year-old girl, city officials said.
Bedeau's lawyer, Donald Vogelman, said he was innocent.
"My understanding is they did know each other, but he denies having sexual intercourse with her," Vogelman said.
Bedeau, 50, was reassigned to administrative duty during the investigation. The Department of Education said it was outraged and was seeking to fire him.
Students and neighbors were shocked at the charges.
"He was a good teacher," his former student Ebony Paschall said. "He did everything right. He never came on to any student when I saw him."
Bedeau was arraigned on Wednesday night and was being held on $10,000 bail. He could face seven years in prison on each of the charges if convicted.
If there is a DROP of DNA anywhere NEAR her private parts, he needs to be de-balled.....and jailed.
The most ridiculous item of the day.
Now wait a minute: A male teacher rapes a student=castration or worse, a female teacher rapes a student=book deal, tv exposure, appearance in Playboy.
What's wrong with this?
ping
It all depends on whether the teacher is a "hot chick" or not....don't ya know? -sarc
If he didn't do it, he should be jailed for stupidity ... what fool would be alone in his home with a female student?
Too cute for jail. It's a good defense.
...Democrat... union member... nothing to see here... move along...
Hillary is the Senator from NYS. When did she know it and what did she do to protect this child?
Any teacher that invites a student to their home is an idiot.
You said -- "f he didn't do it, he should be jailed for stupidity ... what fool would be alone in his home with a female student?"
He wasn't home alone with the female student. There was another person there, at home, too (according to the article). But, the article doesn't make clear where (in the home) the other person was -- at all times...
And so, that begs several other questions, like did the girl run out of one room into another screaming? Or, did the other person run in there and break it up? Or..., what?
Regards,
Star Traveler
You said -- "Any teacher that invites a student to their home is an idiot."
How about two students? How about a student and another person? Just wondering...
Regards,
Star Traveler
Absolutely. Get this, my young son has a 7 year old female friend who comes over to play, quite frequently. I am often tasked with watching the kids play while my wife is out shopping, and the other day, while I was kidding around with them, she looks at me, with a look I can only call "sultry", and says "Don't look at me like I'm 18". I was shocked. I then realized that I was never again going to be alone with the kids at home when she is around.
I love children (have nine of my own) ... but I feel like I have to be careful even smiling at other people's children in Walmart.
Wow!
That's sad when it gets to the point that you are afraid to be a good dad and neighbor.
I hate the trend of making little girls act and dress "grown up" when they are just kids.
...and after that, hung by the neck until dead in front of the entire staff, NEA Union Thugs, School Administrators, and School Board. Then left haning in school yard as warning to further violators robbing our children's lives.
That is truly frightening! It's so sad that the predators of the world have ruined childhood for so many, even those who've never been molested.
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