How Could You? Hall of Shame-Laura Lynn Cross

This will be an archive of heinous actions by those involved in child welfare, foster care and adoption. We forewarn you that these are deeply disturbing stories that may involve sex abuse, murder, kidnapping and other horrendous actions.

From Tallmadge, Ohio, “a teacher has pleaded guilty to having her underage student’s baby 

after spending three years grooming him and becoming his foster mother.

Laura Lynn Cross, 37, of Tallmadge, Ohio, started grooming the child when he was in eighth grade, when students are between the ages of 13 and 14.

Cross, an English teacher at Buchtel High School, pleaded guilty on Friday to three counts of sexual battery.

She began by inviting the student to play in her swimming pool before convincing his mother to let him move in as part of a court-approved ‘partial parental custody’ arrangement.

Cross was arrested earlier this month after police learned she had given birth to the boy’s baby in December 2015.

The teenager’s mother complained to Akron police in June 2015 about the affair and contacted prosecutors in Tallmadge, according to Ohio.com.

And his father claimed to news5cleveland that he first raised concerns with police as early as 2012 when his son was a freshman, but Cross was punished.

He said of Cross, who resigned from her teaching position in January 2015: ‘First of all, she’s a schoolteacher. To get aroused by a child basically you have to be a sick individual.’

She is due to be sentenced by Summit County Common Pleas Judge Tammy O’Brien on May 24.”

Female teacher, 37, admits to having her student’s BABY after becoming his foster mother following a sexual relationship starting ‘when he was 14’

 

[Daily Mail 3/28/18 by Rory Tingle]

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