It seems like every other month, the news hits of yet another woman teacher who has been arrested for molesting one of her current or former students. The most recent case involved a 30-year-old special education teacher from Downers Grove, IL, who allegedly exchanged inappropriate texts and FaceTime communications with a 15-year-old boy and then sexually assaulted him. The teacher, Christina Formella, had married her childhood sweetheart just last year. Why she would groom and target a child at her school and jeopardize both her employment and future is not known.
Another similar incident occurred in Wisconsin last fall. A 23-year-old teacher, Madison Bergmann, is alleged to have kissed and fondled an 11-year-old boy in her classroom and sent him some 33,000 inappropriate texts. When Bergmann was arrested, she was engaged to be married. Needless to say, the wedding was called off by her fiancé. It has been reported that Bergmann is now in hiding at her grandparent’s farm.
A substitute teacher in Minnesota, 24-year-old Caitlin Thao, has been accused of assaulting a 17-year-old student. Thao allegedly bought the student gifts and invited him to come over when her husband was not home. Her husband discovered the affair and contacted the student’s mother. Good for him.
Lest you think that these disturbing incidents are limited to the Midwest, a New Jersey teacher, Laura Coron, became impregnated by a former student when he was only 13. She was 29 at the time. Coron befriended the victim’s family, and he and his siblings could sleep at her home. This should have been a huge red flag for his parents, but Coron, like most predators, ingratiated herself with the family.
These disturbing stories do not seem to be isolated instances. According to the Daily Mail, 25 female teachers have been arrested in 16 states from April 2023 to April 2024. What is at the heart of this alarming trend?
The answer lies in a convergence of multiple factors. First of all, smartphones and social media make it easier for female teachers to groom and manipulate their students. What appears to start very innocently quickly escalates to inappropriate behavior of a sexual nature. Victims often feel trapped in the relationship even if they want to end it, fearing their parents may find out the things they have said and done. Ironically, these digital communications usually precipitate the apprehension of the perpetrators, as there is always a paper trail left behind that a family member eventually discovers.
Another factor has been the lack of robust anti-grooming education at the school level. Twenty-five years ago, teachers had to regularly sign codes of conduct and complete training sessions that clearly and unequivocally spelled out which behaviors between students and teachers were acceptable and those that were not. Now, these training modules seem to focus more on diversity, equity, inclusion, and racism than inappropriate sexual conduct between teachers and students.
The presence of highly sexualized books in school libraries and classrooms has also contributed to the rise of predatory teachers. When sexual choices are constantly discussed and celebrated in the school setting, the natural boundaries between teacher and student are eroded. After all, the “love is love” message we have been indoctrinated with in recent years gives tacit permission to these deranged teachers to abuse children.
What remains a mystery is why these seemingly young married and/or engaged female teachers prey on their male students. The adverse psychological, physical, and social trauma directed at these boys is heartbreaking, as is the distress their husbands, boyfriends, and families must feel.
Perhaps the feminist movement has brainwashed these women to think that they can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without any accountability. Maybe they feel some sick power over these young boys or feel immense superiority that they would not get with someone their age. Perhaps they are so narcissistic that the only one to be able to feed their unquenchable need for adulation is a young boy amid puppy love. Possibly, their consciences have been so dulled by the culture (through pornography, rampant infidelity, glorification of deviant sexuality in movies & music) that they no longer know right from wrong. Perhaps these women have been abused themselves.
Whatever the reason, this trend will only stop when school boards and districts begin to get serious again regarding the abuse of children and reinstitute adequate child safety training. But don’t count on it, as administrators would have to return to the common sense of the past. Most are way too “enlightened” to give up their progressive ideals regarding gender and sexuality.
Parents also have a role to play. Minors’ social media and phone usage must be monitored at all times. This is a small price to pay for your child’s physical and psychological well-being. Parents should also pay particular attention to an adult teacher or coach who seems too friendly or asks to be alone with their child. This behavior is not normal. Only disordered adults would willingly spend their free time with a student. The rest prefer going home and interacting with their friends and families.
And we also have to turn back to God. Our secular, sexually explicit, anything-goes society is destroying generations of people – those who selfishly choose to abuse minors and those who are the victims. May God have mercy on us.
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