Current Events > NYC probe finds Female teachers and aides were equal-opportunity predators

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https://nypost.com/2022/10/08/female-nyc-teachers-were-equal-opportunity-predators-probe/

Newly released reports from the Special Commissioner of Investigation for city schools documented multiple cases of shocking sexually-charged behavior by female teachers and aides in city public schools from bedding students to sending explicit photos to high schoolers to exposing bare breasts to remote-learning 5-year-olds. Natalie Black, 27, a teacher at Hillside Arts and Letters Academy in Queens, sent at least 15 raunchy snaps of herself in lingerie or nude to a 17-year-old male student beginning in late 2021, an SCI report said. The boy was interviewed by the NYPD, but no charges were filed. By March 2022, the report found, Blacks bad behavior escalated: she showed male students photos of her vagina, pulled down her pants in a students home and told him to eat my ass, and sent kids videos of herself deep throating a liquor bottle and dancing naked from the waist down. In another galling incident, Makita Brooks-Stanton, a paraprofessional at PS 160 in Queens, took her phone along to a May 2020 doctors visit then stripped down for a breast exam in full view of her remote-learning pre-kindergarten class. She even had the doctor say hi to the class on Google Meet, said a mortified mother who was monitoring the session over her 5-year-olds shoulder. She was in her blue gown and thats when she was exposed, the mom told The Post last week. It was a frontal view.

Brooks-Stanton flashed the tots for about two minutes, said the mom, whose shouts eventually got the class lead teacher to shut down the offending screen. The breast exposure to a pre-K class did not appear purposeful, SCI investigators concluded but Brooks-Stantons actions showed a serious lack of professionalism. I felt really bad when I registered the complaint, the mother said. I think this was just a poor judgment call on her part. Michelle Zak, then 31, engaged in an inappropriate relationship with two of her underage students at the Queens High School of Teaching, Liberal Arts, and Sciences, smoking pot with them and hosting them for sleepovers. She was assigned to a non-classroom DOE job while the investigation was underway and is now a self-employed tutor. Im outraged, SESAME founder Terri Miller told The Post. How dare these teachers who are put in a position of trust over our children violate that trust so egregiously? These incidents are going to put a mark of trauma on every single one of those children. Miller warned against the tendency to minimize the damage done by female teachers who prey on teen boys. Studies find that boys offended by a female are more likely to suffer more severe psychological trauma, more likely to become addicted to alcohol and drugs, and more likely to drop out of school, she said.