FL Math Teacher, 37, Arrested After Student Calls Her His ‘Girlfriend’
In another example of the continuing epidemic of sexual misconduct among teachers in the United States: A 37-year-old Florida math teacher was arrested for allegedly having sex with an underage high school student after the boy admitted to his parents that his “girlfriend” was his math teacher.
Kirsten Rose, 37, a teacher at Cocoa Beach High School, was arrested last Friday, five months after she began chatting with the boy outside of school hours on Instagram in November, according to court documents reported by local media.
The relationship, according to Brevard County sheriff’s authorities, continued into the new year and escalated into sexual relations between the two men in February and March.
The secret affair began to emerge when the boy’s parents became curious after their son came home late from work one evening, saying he was with his “girlfriend” but without identifying her.
When they learned where the girl was, they realized “he was at home and they didn’t know him,” the CBS affiliate in Palm Beach reported.
After the boy’s parents pressed him, the student eventually admitted he was having a relationship with his teacher, according to investigators.
Cocoa Beach is located on the Atlantic coast, just south of the Kennedy Space Center.
The arrest represents another case in the continuing cavalcade of school staff accused of criminal sexual conduct with minors in large and small districts across the United States.
Rose has been charged with five counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor and is being held in the Brevard County Jail.
His arraignment is set for May 5.
Authorities have not yet released the student’s age or the year he was in high school.
The investigation continues, with the Sheriff’s Office asking anyone who may have additional information about the teacher to contact its Special Victims Unit.
As Breitbart News exclusively reported, leading researchers say a culture of permissiveness, a reluctance to report fellow teachers, and the use of social media and the Internet fueled what they called “rampant” sexual misconduct by teachers over the past two decades in the United States.
While it’s usually relationships between adult female teachers and teenagers under the age of consent that make salacious headlines, national studies show that nearly nine out of 10 cases are perpetrated by male teachers, coaches and other school employees.
Researchers told Breitbart that in cases involving female teachers, perpetrators use sexual grooming methods to lure students, while male perpetrators groom women with a relationship based on “love” that leads to criminal sexual assault.
Charol Shake Shaft, the nation’s leading researcher on the problem, called the number of cases of educator sexual misconduct in American schools “100 times worse” than the high-profile pedophile sex scandal that has hit the Catholic Church in recent decades.
Veteran crime writer Lowell Cauffiel is the award-winning author of the New York Times best-selling true crime novel. House of secrets , which documents one of the worst cases of child sexual abuse in U.S. history, And nine other detective novels and non-fiction titles. See lowellcauffiel.com to find out more.
