Julie Rizzitello, a 37-year-old English teacher at Wall Township High School in New Jersey, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after admitting she took advantage of two of her students, including one she groomed from his freshman year and later became pregnant by.
The disturbing details were laid out in Monmouth County court as Rizzitello was formally sentenced after pleading guilty to two counts of second-degree intimate misdemeanor.
Prosecutors then revealed a concerning finding, explaining that Rizzitello not only convinced the first teenage student – who was approximately 15 years old at the time – to have relations with her, but also to do so unprotected.
