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A newly engaged elementary school teacher who confessed to “making out” with an 11-year-old boy in her classroom broke down in tears as she was sentenced to six years in prison, just half of what prosecutors had wanted. Madison Bergmann, now 26, was a fifth-grade teacher at River Crest Elementary School in Hudson, Wis., until a student’s father discovered 35,000 text messages she’d shared with his son over just three months last year — in which she gushed about how much she loved them touching and “making out.” Cops searched her classroom and found a folder with the victim’s name...

A middle school teacher's sickening messages to a 14-year-old boy she allegedly groomed and raped have surfaced in the wake of her arrest. Melissa Rockensies, from Queens, is charged with rape, criminal sexual act and acting in a manner injurious to a child less than 17-years-old. The teen, who did not want to be identified, told the New York Post that Rockensies began grooming him shortly after she began filling in as an educator at his school last year. He claims that the mother-of-three began messaging him on Instagram, sending a slew of lewd messages including one that allegedly said...

FAYETTE, Iowa – Three more former employees at a northeast Iowa care facility are accused of having sex with patients, according to the Fayette County Sheriff's Office. All five are charged with sexual exploitation by a counselor or therapist, a felony, WHO-TV reports. The five are accused of having a sex with patients while working at Prairie View Residential Care Facility in Fayette between 2015 and 2016. The facility cares for patients with chronic mental illness, intellectual disabilities, or medical conditions. Officers arrested 23-year-old Paige Lynn Johanningmeier and 26-year-old Megan Marie Penney in early March. The investigation, which began in...