Another Teacher

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A Los Angeles middle school teacher has been charged after allegedly grooming her 13-year-old student into a sexual relationship for more than a year, with prosecutors saying she left her husband to be in “love” with the child. Colleen Jo Matarico, 43, was arrested and booked into the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, California, on November 7, jail records show.

Matarico was teaching at John Burroughs Middle School when she met her alleged victim when he was just 12 years old, and began having sexual intercourse with him when he turned 13.

She first met him at 12 years old,” Deputy District Attorney Ariel Anson said in court on Tuesday, according to CBS News. “And the inappropriate relationship started at 13 years old while she was still his teacher. After the investigation, (which) she believed was over, the relationship did not end.”

“In the messages between her and that minor, she indicates that she is in love with him, that he is the only one that she would go to jail for… and that he is her crystal meth,” Anson continued.

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