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A trainer from Queens, New York Metropolis, was seen smiling as she left court docket together with her husband by her aspect after being charged with raping a 14-year-old scholar and sending him sick messages.
Melissa Rockensies, 33, went earlier than Choose Pandit-Durant together with her lawyer, Brian Griffin, on Wednesday for a convention listening to in Queens Supreme Court docket.
She is charged with rape, legal sexual act and appearing in a way injurious to a baby lower than 17-years-old.
Rockensies, of Massapequa, walked out of court docket together with her husband William, as she flashed a smile. She was the dean at Corona Arts & Science Academy, and she or he one of many sufferer’s summer time faculty lecturers and counselors.
Melissa Rockensies, 33, went earlier than Choose Pandit-Durant together with her lawyer, Brian Griffin, on Wednesday for a convention listening to in Queens Supreme Court docket
Rockensies walked out of court docket together with her husband William, as she flashed a smile
The teenager, who didn’t wish to be recognized, beforehand informed the New York Put up that Rockensies started grooming him shortly after she started filling in as an educator at his faculty final 12 months.
He claims that the mother-of-three started messaging him on Instagram, sending a slew of lewd messages together with one which allegedly stated ‘I will be moaning for you all day.’
The 14-year-old who was a scholar on the Corona Arts and Sciences Academy informed the outlet that he felt like Rockensies had ‘taken benefit of him due to his age.’
He stated their communication began after he’d began emailing her over an issue with one other child on the faculty and that he’d felt ‘comfy together with her.’
‘I used to be weak together with her. I am good however I do not make good choices. I work off of impulse. If somebody says let’s go do one thing I might say all proper let’s go do it,’ he stated.
Over the course of virtually a 12 months the sufferer claims that she despatched the wicked messaged in between taking good care of her kids.
She is charged with rape, legal sexual act and appearing in a way injurious to a baby lower than 17-years-old
The teenager, who didn’t wish to be recognized, informed the New York Put up that Rockensies started grooming him shortly after she started filling in as an educator at his faculty final 12 months.=
In September, after allegedly exchanging tons of of emails, the pair started messaging on Instagram, with Rockensies ultimately suggesting to fulfill up in particular person, the teenager claimed
In a textual content alternate obtained by the New York Put up, the teenager claimed Rockensies allegedly wrote: ‘You are gonna be fortunate as soon as I put this child to sleep.’
In one other textual content seen by the outlet, Rockensies allegedly wrote: ‘I would like you so unhealthy and now I gotta go learn youngsters books like …wtf.’
She additionally allegedly wrote to the boy: ‘Examine up in your approach and I will be moaning for you all day and all night time daddyy’ and ‘I wanna be capable to kiss these lips of yours.’
In September, after allegedly exchanging tons of of emails, the pair started messaging on Instagram, with Rockensies ultimately suggesting to fulfill up in particular person, the teenager claimed.
He informed the outlet that the pair went for a stroll within the park after she went to the grocery store, the place she’s been accused of hugging the boy ‘actually shut’ after which asking to ‘kiss him.’
‘This got here out of nowhere. I wasn’t anticipating it as a result of she stated she has a husband and stuff. I felt bizarre like I needed to hug her again. I hugged her. I kissed her. That is the way it began.’
The alleged sexual abuse continued till late Might, or early June the teenager claimed and would sometimes happen in her automobile earlier than and after faculty its been alleged.
‘She’d inform me the place to go to fulfill her, the place the automobile is parked,’ he claimed and stated that she tried to fulfill him day by day besides Wednesday, when ‘she needed to watch the youngsters.’
‘Each time we might meet up, we might have intercourse,’ he claims including that she would allegedly give him presents like cash and nicotine units.
William Rockensies (left) claims that his spouse Melissa is ‘harmless’ of the allegations made in opposition to her following her arrest
‘More often than not she [gave] me cash. Essentially the most she ever gave me was $500,’ he stated.
Final month, the trainer claimed that the teenager had been threatening to ‘extort’ her and accused him of claiming that he’d ‘shoot her and her youngsters’ if she did not pay him $5,000. It’s unclear if Rockensies revealed why the pupil was blackmailing her.
The scholar has rebuffed these allegations, saying that he’d been banned from Instagram after skipping summer time faculty and another person had been messaging her from his account.
After the threats had been reported, the teenager stated he went to authorities and confirmed them their specific messages – the teenager’s grandmother informed the New York Put up that she was ‘disgusted by the abuse.’
‘They’re making him out to be the monster and he’s not. The sufferer is my grandson,’ she stated, noting that she deliberate on getting him into counseling.
‘He’s a minor. She is sufficiently old to know higher.’
After Rockensies arrest her husband, William, defended the 33-year-old who he claims is ‘harmless.’
The couple had been seen leaving their house in Massapequa collectively on Wednesday, following her arraignment listening to in Queens Prison Court docket on Tuesday.
Each remained silent as they bought into their car to depart their house, after Rockensies was seen taking a child into the property.
She was a dean and trainer on the faculty on the time of the allegations, and has pleaded not responsible to rape within the second and third diploma, legal sexual act within the second diploma and endangering the welfare of a kid.
Chatting with the New York Put up her husband stated: ‘My spouse is harmless. She’s the mom of three youngsters. She loves them very a lot.
‘She’s been an enormous a part of the neighborhood at her faculty. All of us assist her. We’re saying she’s harmless. I will not elaborate any additional why.’
Choose Anthony Battisti ordered the defendant to return to court docket on November 24, with the trainer dealing with as much as seven years in jail if convicted. She was launched with out bail.
District Lawyer Melinda Katz stated: ‘These disturbing allegations characterize an abuse of authority and a betrayal of the belief college students and oldsters place of their faculties.
The trainer reportedly earned round $85,000 final 12 months, with a Division of Schooling spokeswoman confirming that Rockensies is not working on the faculty
‘On behalf of the sufferer and his household, and the overwhelming majority of lecturers dedicated to the schooling and well-being of our kids, we’ll search to realize justice on this case.’
Rockensies was beforehand the dean of Management and Scholar Help on the center faculty, and attended a number of of the schooling services occasions with mother and father and college students.
Social media posts worryingly present her posting about serving to kids perceive ‘consent’ from October final 12 months.
It suggested that kids shouldn’t preserve secrets and techniques from their household, in addition to respecting their reply once they say ‘no’.
Authorities haven’t confirmed if the alleged rape came about on or off campus, with married Rockensies posting about how emotional she was to lose her Class of 2023 – referring to herself as a ‘proud faculty mother’.
The trainer reportedly earned round $85,000 final 12 months, with a Division of Schooling spokeswoman confirming that Rockensies is not working on the faculty.
In a press release, they stated: ‘This alleged conduct is extraordinarily regarding and wholly unacceptable.
‘This worker has been reassigned away from the varsity and college students pending the end result of the arrest and if convicted, we’ll pursue termination.
‘Nothing is extra vital than the protection and well-being of our college students.’
