Posted on 02/21/2005 8:05:45 PM PST by wjersey
Riverside, N.J., Feb. 21, 2005 — Sources say the 14-year-old boy having an affair with a teacher is cooperating with police, but is reluctant to divulge details for fear of getting her in more trouble. Action News has been told the boy is in love with the teacher, who is ten years older, and that the two even talked of marriage.
Gail Nottie/STORE OWNER: "I can't understand it, I can't see what a women would see in a child."
People are still in shock about the arrest Friday of a substitute teacher at Riverside High School for allegedly having an affair with a fourteen-year-old student.
Twenty-four-year-old Angela Stellwag, the daughter of Delran Mayor Joseph Stellwag, has been charged with sexual assault. Police say the two met in 2003 at Beverly City school when he was an eighth grader, and Stellwag was a substitute. Students there say there was lots of talk.
Mychalynn Bryant/STUDENT: "He would always stay after school with her and like people just started getting suspicious."
Gabrielle Hensley/Student: "One time I was at Sub Shack and I seen them up there, and they were making out in the car, and 'Wow'."
Efforts to contact Stellwag and her attorney were unsuccessful authorities have seized e-mails and love notes between the teacher and teen as evidence.
Attorney Mike Riley represent the boy and his family and says the fourteen-year-old is having a difficult time.
Mike Riley/VICTIM'S ATTORNEY: "The young man is not in a position where he has the legal capacity to give legal consent.... The shock of this relationship being exposed, the intense news interest in the relationship, the fact that he obviously has feelings for this young lady. It's a very distressing and disturbing situation he finds himself in."
At the deli down the street from Riverside High, people are shaking their heads.
Sal Notte/STORE OWNER: "Now whether she's guilty or not, I don't want to judge anybody, but it's just a horrible thing that happened."
A fourteen year old boy isn't a man.
I Notice that no one's trying to broadbrush our public shool system they way they did the Catholic church.
I considered it, then thought I'd made my point and shouldn't bother. But I'll second your view right now.
Thanks for summing it up for us... lol. No need for me to continue reading now...
P.S. (I would've been one of the posters with the "this is why I homeschool" lines. Thanks for posting it for me).
he he. I wrote it, then thought about it, and now believe I can satisfy any objections to it. :)
I do many things backwards...or is that forwards?
I don't see the connection you are trying to make. This story is about a woman teacher and a boy, right?
Financial penalties?? That's hardly a deterrent...
Put her stinking hide in the klink, like anyone else who would do this.
Are you serious? Or are you just doing your part to continue the recent FR phenomenon?
I vote we all walk away with our own opinions and agree to disagree.... that's what I'm doing.
Well, Infidel44's comment wasn't a " disagreement," it was an attempt at insulting me. This is becoming all to common a feature of FreeRepublic, and these newbies seem more often than not to be the culprits.
Boy, I thought the same thing.
And I am glad I homeschool. LOL!
This story is about a woman teacher and a boy, right?
This story is about a "teacher" who was placed in a position of "authority" over "children" to "teach" them the curiculum assigned by the school. The "teacher" was "entrusted" to not "prey" upon minds that are not fully "developed". This is not "The Graduate" High School, and she is not "Mrs. Robinson", she is a supposedly "mature" person who "preyed" upon an "immature" child.
Am I the only one getting why this wrong, or has the world become this desensitized to children being preyed upon by adults?
Obviously,you and the other little boys on Fr,may be adults physically,but aren't mature enough to be able to comprehend that these children are mentally unprepared for the pedophilic advances of the sickos who prey on them.
No it's a lot of men who see an attractive woman and wish it was them, especially when the reality is that they're married to a plain woman with children. That Playboy really is fantasy ain't it?
Read down further. You'll find the responses unreal to my question about christianity.
Just how old are you,newbie?
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