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Police Say Teacher’s Texts Expressed ‘Deep Love’ for 11-Year-Old Girl

Posted on | March 27, 2015 | 19 Comments

Geraldine Alcorn, 28, was arrested this month in Pittsburgh after police say she became obsessed with an 11-year-old student at Beechwood Elementary School, where Alcorn was a pre-kindergarten teacher:

Alcorn took the student ice skating and later lured the 11-year-old girl to her house, according to a criminal complaint.
Another time, Alcorn was found alone with the girl in the student’s home while the girl’s mother was at work, according to the complaint.
Police say Alcorn and the girl sent each other more than 2,400 text messages during a two-week span in late January and early February.
In the messages, both expressed “a deep love for each other,” according to the complaint.
The two also talked of Alcorn adopting the girl and discussed running away together. Alcorn told the girl they would “be on the run” for a while, according to the complaint.
The girl told police she and Alcorn tried to keep their interactions a secret from the girl’s mother.

Police say there was no indication of sexual activity between Alcorn and the girl. However, the relationship was emotionally intense:

The complaint further states the mother discovered Post-It notes and letters from the girl to Alcorn on which the girl had written, “Things Ms. Alcorn and I can do,” “What we can do” and “When we can do it,” CBS Pittsburgh reports. . . .
Contact between the two continued even after school district officials suspended Alcorn on Feb. 13 and warned her not to contact the girl again, reports the Tribune-Review.
On March 13 — the same day that Alcorn met with police — she returned to her school to collect her belongings. The girl subsequently found gifts and a letter from Alcorn in her locker, including a math worksheet encrypted with circled numbers requesting the girl to call her, according to the criminal complaint.
After her arrest Tuesday, Alcorn was arraigned Wednesday on charges of child luring, corruption of minors, and attempting to interfere with custody of the child.

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review notes that in Allegheny County, “there are at least three other active criminal cases against teachers accused of behaving inappropriately with students”:

  • Megan Batykefer, 31, was arrested in August after she admitted to police she had a sexual relationship with a male student at North Allegheny High School. The boy was a member of the school’s rowing team, which Batykefer coached. Although she did not have sex with the boy until after his 18th birthday, Batykefer was charged with institutional sexual assault under state law forbidding sex between students and teachers.
  • Jason Cooper, 38, was arrested in February after police say he had sex with an 18-year-old girl who was a student at Plum High School, where Cooper was a science teacher. Cooper was charged with institutional sexual assault, corruption of minors and furnishing alcohol to a minor. Two weeks later, his bond was revoked when police say Cooper called the girl involved in the case, and he was charged with witness intimidation.
  • Joseph J. Ruggieri, 40, was also a teacher at Plum High School, and was arrested just days after Cooper was first arrested. A girl told police she had sex with Ruggieri at his home. He was vice-president of the district’s teachers union and his salary was more than $100,000 a year. Last week, Ruggieri’s bond was revoked and he was charged with witness intimidation after police say he contacted his accuser using online video chat software, telling the girl, “My livelihood will be ruined,” “My kid’s life will be ruined,” and “I miss you.”

Why aren’t you homeschooling your kids yet?

 

Category: Crime, Education, Sex

Comments

19 Responses to “Police Say Teacher’s Texts Expressed ‘Deep Love’ for 11-Year-Old Girl”

  1. Fail Burton
    March 27th, 2015 @ 6:27 am

    “#NotAllWomen” – U.S. Constitution

    #SomebodysLifeMatters

  2. Dana
    March 27th, 2015 @ 6:36 am

    #FreeGeraldine

  3. Southern Air Pirate
    March 27th, 2015 @ 6:46 am

    Oh and even if they are charged and sent to jail want to guess how many of them will still collect a taxpayer pension?
    https://www.myfreedomfoundation.com/blogs/liberty-live/freedom-foundation-teacher-pension-scandal-story-goes-national

  4. Adobe_Walls
    March 27th, 2015 @ 7:31 am

    It’s gotta be some sort of virus.

  5. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    March 27th, 2015 @ 8:04 am

    Seriously, did this just go unreported or is there an epidemic of this sort of thing?

  6. Adobe_Walls
    March 27th, 2015 @ 8:20 am

    It’s certainly endemic.

  7. Daniel O'Brien
    March 27th, 2015 @ 8:36 am

    Epidemic. Culture has changed.

  8. RS
    March 27th, 2015 @ 10:36 am

    The girl told police she and Alcorn tried to keep their interactions a secret from the girl’s mother.

    Conspicuous by his absence is any reference to a father in the home.

  9. RKae
    March 27th, 2015 @ 10:50 am

    It can’t be said enough: Use the paper seat covers when you’re on a public toilet!

  10. RKae
    March 27th, 2015 @ 10:52 am

    “Father.” Hang on… I know that word… It’ll come to me…

    But seriously, folks, there’s no mention of a horse and buggy either.

    Fathers? Meh. Get some sperm at the frozen sperm shop.

  11. Zohydro
    March 27th, 2015 @ 10:53 am

    It seems that social media, that weren’t available until recent years, have played some role in most of these crimes… I recall the iPod that St Kate slipped her victim!

  12. RKae
    March 27th, 2015 @ 10:54 am

    Something only SEEMS like an epidemic when it’s on its way to normalization.

    Nothing to worry about. Soon this will be so commonplace that you won’t even notice it.

  13. RS
    March 27th, 2015 @ 11:00 am

    Fish/Bicycle. YMMV.

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  15. Kirby McCain
    March 28th, 2015 @ 8:52 am

    Girls, just hover.

  16. Kirby McCain
    March 28th, 2015 @ 8:59 am

    Why aren’t you homeschooling your kids yet? When they’re not being molested by their teachers their classmates are openly plotting to kill them.

  17. Scott Barker
    March 28th, 2015 @ 1:30 pm

    You’re a DISGUSTING person. I am a TREASURED part of my children’s life.

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    March 28th, 2015 @ 6:44 pm

    […] Geraldine Alcorn, 28, was arrested this month in Pittsburgh after police say she became obsessed with an 11-year-old student at Beechwood Elementary School, where Alcorn was a pre-kindergarten teacher. Alcorn took the student ice skating and later lured the 11-year-old girl to her house. Police say Alcorn and the girl exchanged more than 2,000 text messages and had discussed running away together. […]

  19. letmeeatcake
    April 2nd, 2015 @ 11:06 am

    …yes that sound perfect for frigid feminist…