Guilty! Nicole Dufault, Maplewood, New Jersey (arrested Sept 2014) [now accused of sex w/ 5 students]

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  1. TMP

    TMP Himself

    Thanks for the update!

    3.5 weeks later ...

    Judge Reduces Sex Offense Charges For Maplewood Teacher Nicole Dufault

    15 July 2015


    Nicole Dufault – the Essex County teacher accused of having sexual relationships with six male students – is facing reduced charges courtesy of a Superior Court Judge. Prosecutors are charging that Dufault - a Bloomfield native and Caldwell resident who was teaching at Columbia High School in Maplewood - engaged in sexual activity with six boys on multiple occasions between 2013 and 2014, some of which allegedly occurred on school property and in her car. NJ.com reported that on Monday, Superior Court Judge Michael L. Ravin said he had denied a defense motion to dismiss the child endangerment charges against ...


    https://patch.com/new-jersey/maplew...se-charges-maplewood-teacher-nicole-dufault-0
     
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  2. TMP

    TMP Himself

    As of this article, she was still awaiting trial on the criminal charges. Apparently brain surgery entered into the equation:

    3 Lawsuits Filed Against Former Teacher Accused Of Sexually Assaulting 6 Students

    5 January 2018


    A former teacher is the focus of three sexual assault lawsuits. According to Fox News, 38-year-old Nicole Dufault was arrested in 2014. The former New Jersey high school teacher awaits trial and has now been named in civil suits involving her alleged sexual relationships with six male students. Dufault was a former language arts teacher at Columbia High School in Maplewood, N.J., for approximately nine years. The lawsuits seek “damages for Dufault’s alleged actions and claims she coerced the students into performing oral sex, pressured them due to her authority as a teacher and caused emotional distress and psychological injury." ...


    Dufault's attorney does not disagree that the school lacked supervision. However, he says that his client was a victim due to her reduced mental capacity, citing “frontal lobe syndrome.” Said Tim Smith, “You had a program that took place in an isolated part of the school where there was nobody there to control the situation, then you couple that with the fact that the school never screened her post-brain surgery. She also had a home front situation that was troubled with her husband having been arrested and she was taking care of the kids herself. You had a whirlwind of events that led to this victimization of her.”

    There were reports that Dufault's personal life was in trouble at the time of the sexual incidents, between 2013 and 2014. The mother-of-two had filed for divorce from her husband near the time of the alleged assaults.

    https://www.oxygen.com/crime-time/3...her-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-6-students
     
  3. TMP

    TMP Himself

    I've searched the following:
    • Essex County, NJ, criminal case files
    • NJ inmate locator
    • NJ sex offender registry
    No info!
     
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