A New Jersey elementary school teacher is charged with sexually assaulting a former student who fathered her son.
Officials say the boy formed a close relationship with Laura Caron, 34, who was 28-years-old at the time. The student, who was born in 2005, lived with the teacher from 2016 to 2020. The boy was 13 when he fathered a son with Caron in 2019.
Caron had taught the boy and his brother in the fifth grade at Middle Township Elementary School. The boys’ parents struck up a friendship with the teacher, according to ABC affiliate WPVI. The parents allowed the boys and their sister to sleep over at her house a couple of nights a week at first.
Then the siblings moved in with her in 2016. Caron began sleeping with the student when he was 11. She gave birth to her baby in 2019, while the siblings were still living with her.
The truth was revealed in December 2024 when the boy’s father noticed similarities between himself, his son, and Caron’s 5-year-old son in photos on her Facebook page.
The man went public on Facebook with his suspicions and police quickly launched an investigation, including interviewing the three siblings and their father.
The boy’s sister told police she would notice her brother was in Caron’s bed in the mornings.
The boy’s older brother told police that he witnessed Caron sexually assaulting his brother one night when they thought he was asleep.
Finally, the sister told police that her brother admitted to fathering the child in a text message to her. She said he asked her to keep it a secret.
The boy, who is now 19 years old, told police he had been in a relationship with Caron and had fathered her son in 2019.
He also said that he had remained in contact with her until his father’s Facebook post.
Caron was arrested on Wednesday and charged with first-degree aggravated sexual assault, second-degree sexual assault and second-degree endangering the welfare of a child.
She is being held in jail without bond and could face up to 20 years in prison, according to the New York Post.
Caron’s son was removed from her home.
