A Queens teacher had sex with her 14-year-old student, hooking up with the boy after school in an empty classroom, then bombarding him with hundreds of cell calls and texts, authorities charged yesterday.
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Melissa Weber, 27, of West Babylon, LI, who teaches social studies at MS/IS 8 in Jamaica, had sex with the boy on seven occasions between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. from April 13 to May 14, authorities said.
And on seven other occasions, she allegedly engaged in inappropriate behavior with the boy.
“Don’t tell anyone,” Weber, also the boy’s homeroom teacher, allegedly told him. “I could get arrested, and I could lose my teaching license.”
Sources said the boy’s mom grew worried after noticing her son acting oddly and cutting class.
She went to school to investigate on Wednesday, when several people — including school workers and a student — hinted at an inappropriate relationship between Weber and her son, the sources said.
The mom found the teacher’s phone number, checked her son’s cell — and discovered hundreds of calls and texts between the two, the sources said. One of the last texts allegedly read, “Erase your phone.”
Cops arrested Weber yesterday and questioned the boy, who admitted to the affair, the sources said. He had a calendar of the trysts, the sources said.
But the teacher said that the boy had touched her on the buttocks and breast on a couple of occasions, and that she pushed him away and told him to stop, according to the sources.
Weber was charged with statutory rape, sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child.
“The charges are very disturbing,” DA Richard Brown said.
At the school, parents and students were reeling.
“It’s shocking,” said one of her other social-studies students, eighth-grader Kevin Lawson, 14.
Additional reporting by Tom Liddy and CJ Sullivan