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Report of probereveals incidents of female New York City teachers sexually exploiting minors not lagging far behind the record of their male counterparts

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;382a2c&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Newly released reports from the Special Commissioner of Investigation for city schools documents multiple cases of sexually-charged behavior towards students by female teachers and aides in city public schools <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;382a2c&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>The list of predatory behavior by the female teachers range from sex with students nd sexting with to high schoolers to exposing bare breasts to remote-learning 5-year-olds <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;382a2c&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Teacher Natalie Black&comma; 27&comma; a teacher at Hillside Arts and Letters Academy in Queens&comma; sent at least 15 raunchy snaps of herself &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;in lingerie or nude” to a 17-year-old male student <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;382a2c&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Makita Brooks-Stanton&comma; a paraprofessional at PS 160 in Queens&comma; took her phone along to a doctor’s visit&comma; stripped down for a breast exam in full view of her remote-learning pre-kindergarten class <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;382a2c&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Danielle Medellin&comma; then 24&comma; exchanged nearly 5&comma;500 &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;very flirtatious&comma;” &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;sexual tension”-filled texts with a boy in one of her 11th-grade math classes <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;382a2c&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Michelle Zak&comma; then 31&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;engaged in an inappropriate relationship” with two of her underage students at a high school in Queens NY <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;382a2c&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Juliana Garofalo&comma; another Institute for Collaborative Education teacher&comma; told co-workers that she had a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;sexual relationship” with a male student before he graduated<&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;10&sol;NYC-Schools-board-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-418954"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Reports from the Special Commissioner of Investigation for NYC schools found multiple cases of sexually-charged behavior by female teachers targeting students&period; One of the incidents took place at Hillside Arts and Letters Academy &lbrack;photo&rsqb;<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>When it come to sexual predatory behavior by teachers against their wards female teachers in 33 percent of the cases&comma; likely to exploit the children in their care in New York City&period;<br>Newly released reports from the Special Commissioner of Investigation for city schools &lbrack;SCI&rsqb;&comma; documented multiple cases of shocking sexually-charged behavior by female teachers and aides in city public schools&comma; from having sex with students and sexting with &lbrack;sending explicit images&rsqb;&comma; high schoolers to exposing bare breasts to remote-learning 5-year-olds&period; <br>Seven of the 21 substantiated SCI reports on sexual misbehavior in city schools released in the last two months involve female offenders&period; That ratio is <a rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;researchgate&period;net&sol;publication&sol;330860518&lowbar;Sexual&lowbar;Abuse&lowbar;and&lowbar;Exploitation&lowbar;of&lowbar;PreK-12&lowbar;Students&lowbar;by&lowbar;School&lowbar;Personnel" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">in line with the national average<&sol;a>&comma; according to the advocacy group Stop Educator Sexual Abuse&comma; Misconduct and Exploitation &lbrack;SESAME&rsqb;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<div class&equals;"wp-block-image">&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"alignleft size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;10&sol;Natalie-Black-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-418960"&sol;><figcaption>Natalie Black &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; 27&comma; sent at least 15 raunchy snaps of herself &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;in lingerie or nude” to a 17-year-old male student&period;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Among the cases contained in the report&comma; Natalie Black&comma; 27&comma; a teacher at Hillside Arts and Letters Academy in Queens&comma; the report states&comma; sent at least 15 raunchy snaps of herself &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;in lingerie or nude” to a 17-year-old male student beginning in late 2021&comma; an SCI report said&period; <br>The boy was interviewed by the NYPD&comma; but no charges were filed&period;<br>By March 2022&comma; the report found&comma; Black’s bad behavior escalated&colon; She showed male students photos of her vagina&comma; pulled down her pants in a student’s home and told him to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;eat my ass&period;” <br>Black and sent kids videos of herself &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;deep throating” a liquor bottle and dancing naked from the waist down&comma; according to the report&period; <br>However&comma; Hillside Academy administrators never informed the school community of the investigation&comma; students said&period;<br>Black refused to cooperate with SCI investigators&period; <br>She was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;removed from DOE service” while the probe was ongoing&comma; the report noted&comma; but remains an employee of the city&&num;8217&semi;s Department Of Education &lbrack;DOE&rsqb;&comma; according to her <a rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;linkedin&period;com&sol;in&sol;natalieblack37&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">active LinkedIn page<&sol;a>&comma; which also sends readers to <a rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;youtu&period;be&sol;jzVTpQfoWBY" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">self-created videos<&sol;a> of Black’s singing performances on YouTube&period;<br>The SCI report recommended that Black be permanently removed from the DOE workforce&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;given her total unfitness as a pedagogue&period;” <br>As of now Black&&num;8217&semi;s employment status with the Dept&period; Of Education is unclear&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;10&sol;image-7&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-418975" width&equals;"836" height&equals;"824"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Makita Brooks &lbrack;photo&rsqb; is still employed by DOE&comma; despite recorded incident of stripping down for a breast exam in full view of her remote-learning pre-kindergarten class<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In another case of teacher impropriety&comma; Makita Brooks-Stanton&comma; a paraprofessional at PS 160 in Queens&comma; took her phone along to a May 2020 doctor’s visit — then stripped down for a breast exam in full view of her remote-learning pre-kindergarten class&period;<br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;She even had the doctor say hi to the class on Google Meet&comma;” said a mortified mother who was monitoring the session over her 5-year-old’s shoulder&period;<br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;She was in her blue gown and that’s when she was exposed&comma;” the mom told The Post last week&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It was a frontal view&period;” <br>Brooks-Stanton flashed her body part to the children for &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;about two minutes&comma;” said the mom&comma; whose shouts eventually got the class’ lead teacher to shut down the offending screen&period;<br>The &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;breast exposure to a pre-K class did not appear purposeful&comma;” SCI investigators concluded&comma; while noting that the teacher&&num;8217&semi;s &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;actions showed a serious lack of professionalism&period;”<br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I felt really bad when I registered the complaint&comma;” the mother said&period; <br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I think this was just a poor judgment call on her part&period;”<br>Brooks-Stanton remains at PS 160&comma; families said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;10&sol;Michelle-Zak1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-418957"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Michelle Zak&comma; then 31&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; the report states lost her job after admitting that she &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;engaged in an inappropriate relationship” with two of her underage students&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In other cases substantiated by SCI&comma; Danielle Medellin&comma; then a 24-year-old teacher&comma; exchanged nearly 5&comma;500 &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;very flirtatious&comma;” &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;sexual tension”-filled texts with a boy in one of her 11th-grade math classes at Manhattan’s Institute for Collaborative Education&period; <br>Medellin resigned before she could be fired&comma; as SCI recommended&period; She moved on to <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;linkedin&period;com&sol;in&sol;daniellemedellin&sol;">a new job <&sol;a>as a New York Times data analyst&period;<br>Michelle Zak&comma; then 31&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;engaged in an inappropriate relationship” with two of her underage students at the Queens High School of Teaching&comma; Liberal Arts&comma; and Sciences&comma; smoking pot with them and hosting them for sleepovers&period; <br>She was assigned to a non-classroom Dept&period; Of Education job while the investigation was underway&period; She is now a self-employed tutor&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;10&sol;image-8&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-418979" width&equals;"840" height&equals;"816"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Danielle Medellin&comma; then 24&comma; exchanged nearly 5&comma;500 &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;very flirtatious” texts with a boy in her class&period; She resigned before she could be fired<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Juliana Garofalo&comma; another Institute for Collaborative Education teacher&comma; told co-workers that she had a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;sexual relationship” with a male student before he graduated in 2018&period; <br>The then-33-year-old teacher resigned from the DOE before SCI recommended her termination&comma; then went on to sue the city when word of the damning report got back to the private Connecticut school that had unknowingly hired her&period;<br>A New York State Supreme Court judge <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;iapps&period;courts&period;state&period;ny&period;us&sol;nyscef&sol;ViewDocument&quest;docIndex&equals;&sol;LPFde0hkm3q3gj6kMH2Pw&equals;&equals;">dismissed her case<&sol;a> in December&comma; saying that Garofalo’s behavior was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;utterly disqualifying” for any teaching job&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;10&sol;PS-160-Scholl-NY&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-418968" width&equals;"841" height&equals;"555"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Paraprofessional Makita Brooks-Stanton at P&period;S&period;160 exposed her breasts to her pre-K students during a visit to her doctor<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Reacting to the findings of the SCI reports on sexual misbehavior in city schools SESAME founder Terri Miller said &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’m outraged&comma;”<br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;How dare these teachers — who are put in a position of trust over our children — violate that trust so egregiously&quest; These incidents are going to put a mark of trauma on every single one of those children&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;10&sol;Queens-High-School-of-Teaching-Liberal-Arts-and-Sciences-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-418971" width&equals;"841" height&equals;"565"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Zak allegedly targeted male students at Queens High School of Teaching&comma; Liberal Arts&comma; and Sciences<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Miller warned against the tendency to minimize the damage done by female teachers who prey on teen boys&period;<br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Studies find that boys offended by a female are more likely to suffer more severe psychological trauma&comma; more likely to become addicted to alcohol and drugs&comma; and more likely to drop out of school&comma;” she said&period;<br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This is a life-threatening trauma and injury that bad-apple teachers are inflicting on our children&comma; and they are children&comma;” Miller added&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Damage done&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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