A former elementary school teacher from New Jersey faces
years behind bars after pleading guilty to aggravated sexual assault and
endangering the welfare of a child.
In 2015, Lauren Coyle-Mitchell, 36, who was teaching at the
Dr. Lena Edwards Academic Charter School in Jersey City, took a 15-year-old
school girl home so she could perform sex acts on the eighth-grader, the Bergen
County Superior Court heard.
Teachers at the school contacted police and claimed she had
inappropriate contact with the student during a class trip to Washington DC.
According to her indictment, Coyle-Mitchell performed oral
sex on the girl at least once between October 1, 2014 and June 15, 2015. They
also allegedly had explicit conversations via text and email.
Coyle-Mitchell was charged in 2015 by investigators and was
arrested a month later for breaking a no-contact order by trying to call and
text the victim.
Prosecutors said the victim received two telephone calls
from a restricted number as well as a one-word text message in which the sender
used Mitchell’s pet name for the girl. The girl however did not answer either
the phone calls or the text message.
Under Coyle-Mitchell’s plea agreement, she will be sentenced
to five years in state prison, followed by parole supervision for the rest of
her life.
She will also have to register as a sex offender, give up her
teaching license and never seek public employment.
Her sentencing hearing has been schedule for August 2, 2019.
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