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A DISGRACED teacher accused of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old student had allegedly sent thousands of randy texts to the victim, a court heard.
Madison Bergmann, who now faces 10 felony charges, bowed her head when the explicit messages were read out loud in an open court.
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FacebookWhile testifying in the St. Croix County Circuit Court, Traci Hall, a school resource officer revealed Bergmann and the victim exchanged a staggering 33,000 text messages earlier this year.
She told the court that in some conversations the disgraced teacher even talked about being aroused in the classroom – and how their relationship became more sexual and explicit with time.
The alleged conversations even include several encounters between the accused and the victim during school hours.
The staff revealed the racy texts included the teacher saying she would wear dresses more often as she “liked how he touched her leg”.
Cops arrested Bergmann in May for allegedly “making out” with the fifth-grade student – just three months before her wedding.
When authorities searched her classroom, they allegedly found a secret folder with the victim’s name on it that reportedly contained handwritten notes that talked about how much their sexual encounters, including kissing each other.
The victim’s parents came to know about the alleged abuse after the mum overheard her son talking to Bergmann over the phone.
After finding thousands of explicit text messages from the teacher, the boy’s father stormed into River Crest Elementary School in Wisconsin with printouts of the conversations.
The salacious texts allegedly discussed multiple encounters between the teacher and the pupil – and some of them even happened inside the school classroom.
The court complaint read: “In her notes [Bergmann] tells him that she loves him, wants to kiss him, he turns her on, and that she is obsessed with him.”
Bergmann has been charged with first-degree child sex assault, child enticement and multiple counts of sexual misconduct by a school staff member, the New York Post reports.
However, the attorneys defending her have insisted that she has been overcharged, claiming the staggering amount of texts does not provide enough evidence to support five charges of misconduct.
Attorney Joseph Tamburino said: “There is never any language where she says, ‘I want to have sex with you or that he says ‘I want you to do this with me.’
“They talk a lot about kissing, and lips, and cheeks, and touching legs. They also talk about some sexual issues, obviously, about a woman’s body and a man’s body.
“But nothing like, ‘this is what I want you to do to me,’ or ‘this is what I will do to you.'”
However, a judge disagreed, saying the text messages were enough evidence to support her charges and that the case must proceed to trial.
They said: “It’s clear to me that the state has met its burden to find probable cause that the defendant has committed a felony
“Clearly, there was probable cause presented by the detective today. The case is bound to go for trial.”
It comes after a math teacher accused of having sex with a 16-year-old student was caught after cops found scratch marks on the boy’s back.
Hailey Clifton-Carmack, 26, from Missouri, pleaded guilty to having sexual contact with her student.
She admitted to sleeping with the teenager after wearing “tight leggings and low-cut tops to show off her body”, court documents reveal.
The sordid affair even took place during school hours – and fellow students were allegedly used as “lookouts”, court documents reveal.
The teacher, from Laquey High School, now faces up to four years in prison – and has been put on house arrest until she is sentenced.
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