D.A.: Educator Victimized 13-Year-Old Girl
A teacher at a Jamaica Estates public school has pled guilty in connection with a sexual relationship he had with a student when she was just 13 years of age, said law enforcement sources.
Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown identified the defendant as Charles Oross, 45, of Jefferson Street in East Islip, L.I., who was employed as an eighth grade teacher at I.S. 238 (the Susan B. Anthony School), located at 88-15 182nd St.
Oross pleaded guilty last Thursday, Sept. 6, before Queens Supreme Court Justice Richard L. Buchter to one count of second-degree criminal sexual act in satisfaction of all the charges against him. Buchter indicated he would sentence the defendant to up to six months in jail and 10 years’ probation when he is sentenced on Oct. 18.
Additionally, Oross will be required to participate in a sex offender treatment program, to register as a sex offender and pay a $1,000 supplemental sex offender fee.
“[Oross] is rightly being punished for his actions,” Brown said in a statement. “It is both sad and disturbing that a school teacher preyed on a vulnerable young girl for sexual favors. Such behavior will not be tolerated.”
According to the guilty plea, Oross admitted engaging in a sexual act with a female student on one occasion in January 2009.
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Debra Bresnahan of the District Attorney’s Special Victims Bureau under the supervision of Assistant District Attorneys Marjory D. Fisher, bureau chief, and Kenneth M. Appelbaum and Lucinda C. Suarez, deputy bureau chiefs, and the overall supervision of Executive Assistant District Attorney for Major Crimes Charles A. Testagrossa and Deputy Executive Assistant District Attorney for Major Crimes Daniel A. Saunders.
