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Queens teacher accused of bedding ex-student was Facebook friends with dozens of students

SHATTERED: Daniel Reilly, here with wife Annemarie, allegedly bedded a 14-year-old student and friended dozens of girls on Facebook. (
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The Queens teacher charged with repeatedly bedding a 14-year-old former student in his marital home was Facebook friends with dozens of girls from his school — which their classmates described as “weird.”

Many female students from IS 237 in Flushing told The Post they would be creeped out if a male teacher like Daniel Reilly, 36, tried to be their friend on the social-media site.

“It would be weird for a male teacher to try to friend me on Facebook,” said one sixth-grader. “It would be less weird for a woman teacher, but still. I don’t think I would friend a teacher on Facebook.”

Department of Education policy recommends that teachers don’t friend students on the site, but there’s no outright ban.

Reilly is a popular teacher at IS 237, who uses sweets to win over the students.

“He gives out candy. He is just really a nice, easy to talk to, nice guy. He gave me a Jolly Rancher yesterday before they arrested him,” said Elijah Holmes, 12.

Reilly, a married father with an 11-month-old daughter, was busted at the school Monday for allegedly having had sex with the ex-student at least a dozen times since August.

The two used code names to keep the illegal affair a secret.

Reilly’s lawyer wife, Annemarie, posted his $30,000 bail Tuesday, but spent yesterday holed up at her mom’s home in East Meadow, LI.

“She’s a wonderful girl,” one of the mom’s neighbors said of the humiliated wife. “She didn’t do anything wrong.

“He’s going to jail. He’ll be a pin cushion — you know what happens to child molesters in prison.”

IS 237 parents were sickened by the alleged relationship.

“I’m so scared. I wanted to get my daughter out yesterday, but I couldn’t leave work,” said Yong Soon Choice, 50, a manicurist from Flushing.

“I met him in [a] parent-teacher conference . . . Nice man. That makes me more scared. I’m checking my daughter’s phone every day now.”

But some students defended Reilly. “He’s adorable and he’s the best teacher ever!” said one girl. “Easy to talk to, and he helped me study; he’s the reason I passed.”