Married teacher, 29, arrested after she ‘performed oral sex on 14-year-old pupil’
Dori Myers, 29, who arrived at court today to deny charges of sexual assault, was also seen massaging the teenage student, according to a witness
A MARRIED teacher, 29, has been arrested after she allegedly performed oral sex on 14-year-old pupil.
Dori Myers, 29, who arrived at court today to deny charges of sexual assault, was also seen massaging the teenage student, according to a witness.
The social studies teacher at The New School for Leadership and the Arts in Kingsbridge, New York, was arrested on Friday night after the victim allegedly confided in a classmate.
Myers was charged with criminal sexual act in the second degree and endangering the welfare of a child.
The alleged assault took place in Upper Manhattan on November 1, according to a criminal complaint.
Myers, who lives in Rockland County where her husband is a sheriff’s deputy, denied the allegations according to her lawyer, Andrew Stoll.
Mr Stoll noted the teacher had started a track team at the Bronx school, where she had worked since 2014.
He said: “It just takes one person’s accusation to make an arrest in this town and she’s a model citizen who looks forward to clearing her name."
The brunette wrote about her students and partying on social media, where she posted a since-deleted picture of herself beaming in a dark blue, low cut tank top that read “Champagne All Day, ” while holding a bottle in one hand and a glass of bubbly in the other.
In another now-deleted image, Myers is wearing a white top with the bawdy phrase: “Whiskey Makes Me Frisky.”
In a 2015 tweet, which has also been taken down, she claimed her students often commented on her looks.
She claims one student told her: "Ms. You’re like, real pretty, but, no offence, you got a big forehead."
Prosecutors initially requested a $50,000 bail and said Myers “abused her position as a trusted authority figure,” but Judge Laura Drager eventually released the teacher on her own recognisance.
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The judge issued a 30-day order of protection requiring Myers to stay away from the victim.
The Department of Education called the allegations “deeply troubling” and said Myers, who has no prior disciplinary history, was immediately reassigned “away from students.”
A version of this story originally appeared on the New York Post.
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