Posted on 12/05/2001 9:42:01 AM PST by ValerieUSA
An elementary schoolteacher accused of having sexual contact with two teenage boys has been charged with three more felony counts.
Snohomish County Deputy Prosecutor Lisa Paul doubled the number of charges against Susan G. Lemery of Marysville in a hearing Monday, adding an additional third-degree child-rape charge and two more counts of third-degree child molestation.
Lemery, 37, originally was charged with two counts of third-degree child rape and one count of third-degree child molestation.
Paul told Judge Kenneth Coswert that the state believes Lemery had repeated sexual contact with two 14-year-old boys from Marysville. They are friends of Lemery's son.
Genetic tests show that a semen stain on a comforter on Lemery's bed contained a mixture of her cells and cells from one of the boys, prosecutors allege. Paul said Lemery was offered a chance to plead guilty to the original charges, but refused.
Lemery was arrested June 12, four days after she was suspended from her job as a second-grade teacher at Olivia Park Elementary. She has pleaded innocent to the original charges.
None of her pupils is involved in the case. She is on paid leave. Her trial is scheduled for Feb. 4.
EVERETT — Detectives have seized e-mail records from Susan Lemery, a Marysville teacher accused of having sexual contact with two teenage boys.
She is charged with child rape and molestation.
Files from a computer seized from Lemery's home earlier this month contain the e-mail addresses of a 14-year-old boy, according to Washington State Patrol crime lab experts. The boy is one of two Marysville teenagers who claim Lemery engaged them in sexual acts.
Sheriff's officers declined to provide further details about the files.
Susan Lemery, a popular second-grade teacher, spent so much time with a 14-year-old friend of her son's that other friends, and even her husband, joked that they could be girlfriend and boyfriend, prosecutors say.
The way she acted with another 14-year-old caused the boy's mother enough concern to ask a court for protection. And teachers in Marysville were concerned enough about the way she touched a boy at a middle school basketball game they filed a report that was forwarded to Child Protective Services. Nothing much happened, court papers say, until a group of teenagers told a school counselor that someone needed to look into Lemery.
Prosecutors charged Lemery, 37, yesterday with two counts of third-degree child rape and one count of child molestation, alleging that she had sexual intercourse several times with one 14-year-old boy and sexually fondled another.
...According to papers filed in court yesterday, one of the 14-year-olds told detectives that he grew to trust Lemery after Lemery's husband caught him smoking marijuana and Lemery talked to him about it without getting him into more trouble.
About a month later, in October, the boy said Lemery drove by him in the street at about 11 p.m. after he had been drinking and smoking pot. She offered to give him a ride home, but took him to her house instead and put him to bed. The boy said he awakened to find her touching him inappropriately. He is currently the focus of the molestation charge.
A few weeks after that, in November, the boy's mother requested a protection order in Superior Court to keep Lemery away from him. The boy's father, Lemery's husband, and her son all filed affidavits in her support claiming that nothing inappropriate had happened.
The request for protection was denied. Lemery, prosecutors said, then began to have long talks with another boy, starting in December.
The talks became daily phone calls and frequent e-mails, sometimes from Lemery's home computer and sometimes from her classroom in the Mukilteo School District's Olivia Park Elementary School, the boy told detectives.
Then there were three incidences of sexual intercourse in April in Lemery's home, the court papers allege.
...The court papers included a transcript of her husband Dan Lemery's Jan. 10 call to a Marysville police dispatcher, saying that "my wife I, I believe is having an affair with a, an, an eighth grader." But he later told a detective that he only came to ask about the allegations against his wife in the protection case, and no police investigation was launched.
Is this some kind of stunted mental development or what?
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