NJ teacher who raped students faces three new accusers: report – News Chant USA

A New Jersey highschool teacher who pleaded responsible to sexually abusing students is dealing with three new accusers, who allege she showered them with presents, modified their grades and cleared truancy data as a part of a years-long grooming course of, studies mentioned.

Nicole Dufault, whose legal professional blamed her actions on brain surgical procedure she not too long ago underwent, and the South Orange-Maplewood School District are dealing with three new lawsuits from the accusers in Essex County Superior Court, NorthJersey.com reported.

The fits, two of which have been filed earlier this month and one other that was made public Tuesday, define the abuse that sparked the felony probe into Dufault and finally led to her arrest in 2014 on 40 counts of aggravated sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a kid.

At the time, a video depicting Dufault orally raping a scholar unfold on social media and attorneys for the accusers are blaming the college district for not doing sufficient to stop it from occurring within the first place. 

“She was just out of control with her behavior,” John Baldante, the lawyer representing the victims within the new fits, instructed the outlet, including that Dufault’s actions have been so blatant, it’s troublesome to grasp how directors didn’t find out about them. 

“The question here is, what did the school know directly or what should they have known?” 

The former language arts teacher at Columbia High School in Maplewood and divorced mom of two allegedly instructed one sufferer that she’d been sexually abusing her students so long as she labored for the college — 9 years, the new fits allege, in accordance with the outlet.

That former scholar claims he was in eighth grade when he first began listening to a couple of Columbia teacher who had intercourse with students, helped them minimize class and took them out in her automotive for illicit lunches, amongst different favors, data obtained by the outlet present.

He mentioned Dufault’s reign of abuse began as quickly as he received to the college in the summertime of 2013 when he was 14 and attending a program for teenagers with studying disabilities, the swimsuit claims. 

When his freshman year started that fall, he claims in his swimsuit, Dufault’s abuse shortly escalated from molestation to rape and he was “hand-picked” to be in her class, the lawsuit alleges.

She quickly began showering him with money and different presents, together with a model new pair of high-priced sneakers, which he instructed her was “one of the best gifts he had ever received,” the swimsuit claims. 

“Nicole Dufault then informed [him] what he needed to do for her, saying, ‘I want you to take me right here and now.’”

The teacher then raped the scholar and proceeded to abuse him on greater than 200 events, in accordance with the swimsuit. 

The child additional claims within the swimsuit that Dufault manipulated the college’s computer system to wipe out truancy data of teenagers who minimize class to be together with her and that she modified his grades in courses the place he wasn’t doing properly — strikes that Baldante mentioned ought to’ve set off alarms with directors. 

Another sufferer who filed swimsuit mentioned the abuse first began in 2011 when he was 14 throughout the identical summer season program for teenagers with studying disabilities and the grooming “escalated” throughout his junior year, when Dufault despatched him express textual content messages and nude footage, the outlet reported.

The subsequent day, Dufault and the child went to a parking zone collectively and the teacher orally raped him in her automotive, the swimsuit states. 

The third sufferer repped by Baldante made comparable allegations and mentioned Dufault raped him at the very least eight or 9 instances.

Dufault pleaded responsible to felony sexual contact final January. Each sufferer is in search of $50 million in damages.

An legal professional for Dufault declined remark to the outlet. The college district additionally declined to discuss pending litigation however famous it had procedures in place to report harassment on the time of the abuse.