"A Manhattan judge known for pro-teacher rulings may overturn the firing of a middle-school teacher accused of bedding her 12-year-old student because she says the city did not play fair.
Supreme Court Judge Alice Schlesinger blasted the city Department of Education, saying it apparently used evidence sealed after teacher Claudia Tillery was acquitted in a criminal trial.
“I do agree that a teacher having a relationship with a 12-year-old boy, or a girl, is way, way, way beyond acceptable,” Schlesinger said in a hearing last week. “But they had no authority to unseal a sealed record.”Tillery, who taught at MS 35 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, was charged in November 2011 with rape, having repeated sex with a male student in her home and in a motel while plying him with liquor and marijuana and with giving him cash and gifts.
But a Brooklyn jury acquitted Tillery in April 2014 after her two kids and their homeless, schizophrenic father testified in her defense."
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