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<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Br</strong><strong>ooklyn mom horrified after finding racy texts on her son&#8217;s cell phone from his teacher</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>In April, Takisha Randall found lurid texts and images on her 14-year-old son&#8217;s phone</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>The disturbing images were, allegedly, sent by Andre Braddy, his math teacher at Lenox academy Middle School in Brooklyn, NY</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Braddy, 34, was arrested on April 25 on a litany of sex abuse and child endangerment charges </strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Investgators uncovered a month&#8217;s worth of sexual abuse between the teacher and his eighth-grade student</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Braddy allegedly, had three sexual encounters with the victim inside a classroom and a school bathroom, since Mar 19<br />
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<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Cops monitored conversation</strong> <strong>between Braddy and the boy, the teacher apologized for taking the boy&#8217;s virginity and asked if he liked the [lurid] photos</strong></span></h6>
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<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Braddy was released from jail Tuesday after posting $25,000 bail</strong></span></h6>
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<h6 data-page="1"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-292594" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Andre-Braddy-1.png" alt="Andre Braddy 1.PNG" width="736" height="353" />Math teacher Andre Braddy was arrested April 25, for sexually abusing a 14-year-old middle school student, several times<br />
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<p data-page="1">A Brooklyn mom&#8217;s casual glance at her son&#8217;s cell phone led to the daunting discovery that the 14-year-old boy was the victim of a sexual predator.</p>
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<p>And the predator allegedly was her child&#8217;s math teacher at Lennox Academy Middle School.</p>
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<p>&#8220;I immediately saw text messages and images, pretty disturbing images,&#8221; Takisha Randall said at a press conference at Brooklyn Borough Hall.</p>
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<p>Pausing repeatedly to fight back tears and build up enough strength to continue, Randall recalled how one night last month she went into her son&#8217;s room and saw her middle scholar sitting on the bed staring at his cell phone.<br />
The phone&#8217;s screen was filled with lurid texts and images allegedly sent by the teacher, Andre Braddy.</p>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-292593" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Marcus-and-Takisha-Randall-1.jpg" alt="Marcus and Takisha Randall 1.jpg" width="1400" height="933" />Marcus and Takisha Randall, the parents of a 14-year-old boy who was sexually abused several times by a middle school teacher, address the media</strong></h6>
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<p>&#8220;I felt lost. I was angry. I didn&#8217;t know what to do,&#8221; she said Saturday at the press conference organized by Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams.<br />
&#8220;I was pacing back and forth. Eventually I was able to talk to my husband about it.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Braddy, 34, was arrested on April 25 on a litany of sex abuse and child endangerment charges after detectives uncovered a month&#8217;s worth of sexual abuse between the teacher and his eighth-grade student.</p>
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<p>Braddy was released from jail Tuesday after posting $25,000 bail. Behind bars, he was placed in protective custody and put on suicide watch, officials said.</p>
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<p>Prosecutors say that since March 19, Braddy had three sexual encounters with Randall&#8217;s son inside a classroom and a bathroom at Lenox Academy.</p>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-292595" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Lennox-Academy-Middle-School-Brooklyn-NY.png" alt="Lennox Academy Middle School, Brooklyn NY.PNG" width="775" height="422" />Andre Braddy had taught math at Lennox Academy Middle School in Brooklyn, NY since 2015</strong></h6>
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<p>After Randall reached out to police, cops set up a controlled phone call betweenteacher and student.</p>
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<p>During the conversation, the teacher apologized for taking the boy&#8217;s virginity and asked if he liked the photos, prosecutors said.</p>
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<p>Randall said that the city Department of Education should be doing more to stop sexual predators like Braddy from being in public school classrooms.</p>
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<p>&#8220;There has to be some questions answered,&#8221; Randall said. &#8220;As parents, we all have a responsibility to make sure our children are safe.</p>
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<p>&#8220;I entrusted them with my (child),&#8221; she said, breaking down in tears again.</p>
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<p>Marcus Randall, Takisha&#8217;s husband and the teen&#8217;s father, struggled to contain his anger Saturday.</p>
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<p>&#8220;As a father, in a situation like this, what do you do?&#8221; he said.</p>
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<p>&#8220;We (saw) this teacher weeks before we found out,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s like someone just stabbed you, not in the back, but in the heart, in front of you&#8230;.For someone to confuse a child, to confuse him to say that he&#8217;s in love, that&#8217;s disturbing.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Adams called on the school to implement better policies to allow students to more easily report inappropriate conduct by their teachers.</p>
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<p>&#8220;We need to bring in a child psychiatrist, sex crimes units and define what is the protocol for a child to report (abuse),&#8221; he said. &#8220;Right now we do not have one specific person where a child can say, &#8216;I feel someone was treating me inappropriately.&#8217; Every child should be given instructions on good touch, bad touch.&#8221;</p>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-292596" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Andre-Braddy-2.png" alt="Andre Braddy 2.PNG" width="675" height="507" />City education officials who condemned the teacher&#8217;s actions, said they&#8217;re attempting to fire Braddy</strong></h6>
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<p>City education officials said they&#8217;re attempting to fire Braddy, and have made counselors available to students.</p>
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<p>&#8220;Mr. Braddy was immediately reassigned pending an investigation into these troubling allegations,&#8221; said DOE spokesman Douglas Cohen. &#8220;We are continuing to invest in and expand school climate initiatives that build positive and supportive school communities and ensure students have trusted adults they can talk to about any concerns.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Most of all, everyone at the press conference emphasized the importance of parents talking with their kids about what&#8217;s happening with them at school and going through their cell phones to keep an eye out for inappropriate activity.</p>
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<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m in pain. My wife&#8217;s in pain. My family&#8217;s in pain,&#8221; said Marcus Randall. &#8220;Who&#8217;s not in pain right now? The person who confused my son into falling in love with him.&#8221;</p>
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Math teacher Andre Braddy, 34, arrested for sexually abusing a 14-year-old middle school student – Victim’s stunned mother discovered abuse
