Photo: Cape May County Correctional Center
A New Jersey elementary school teacher is accused of sexually assaulting and having a child with a 13-year-old former student who spent several years living with her, the New York Post reports.
Laura Caron, 34, a former fifth-grade teacher at Middle Township Elementary School, was arrested at her home on Wednesday (January 15) and charged with aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child, according to the Cape May County Prosecutor's Office. The boy and his brother were previously Caron's students and his family remained close with her, allowing their sons and daughter to stay at her house a couple nights a week before living with her permanently between 2016 and 2020, ABC 6 reports.
Caron allegedly had "inappropriate sexual relations" with the boy during that span and gave birth to a child in 2019. The student's father shared a Facebook post acknowledging an uncanny resemblance between his son and Caron's child in December 2024.
The boy's sister told prosecutors that she remembered going to sleep with her brother in the same room, but later finding him in Caron's bed and said the teacher began sleeping with the boy when he was 11 years old. The teen's brother claimed he once saw Caron sexually assaulting his brother while the child was asleep.
The victim, who is now between ages 19 and 20, told investigators that he had a sexual relationship with Caron and fathered the child, remaining in contact with her until his father shared the Facebook post in December.
“This arrest underscores the unwavering commitment of our office and law enforcement partners to protect the children in our community,” Cape May County Prosecutor Jeffery Sutherland said via the New YorkN Post. “Teachers hold a position of great trust, and the allegations in this case represent a deeply troubling breach of that trust. We will work tirelessly to ensure justice is served and to support the victim and their family throughout this process.”