The former teacher kept sobbing as she was escorted away from the court.
14:19, Thu, Oct 2, 2025 Updated: 14:35, Thu, Oct 2, 2025
The former teacher kept crying in court (Image: Law and Crime Network)
A disgraced teacher wept in court as she pleaded guilty to luring and kissing her 11-year-old student on Monday. Madison Bergmann, 25, cried into a tissue as she pleaded guilty to one count of child enticement and two counts of sexual misconduct by school staff. Bergmann kept sobbing as she was escorted away from the court.
The teacher had reportedly bombarded the child with thousands of explicit texts. The former teacher from Wisconsin used to teach at River Crest Elementary School. Her sick secret was revealed by the boy's mum, who heard the pair talking on the phone. The parents also found lewd messages detailing classroom encounters during lunch and after school. Bergmann reportedly told the boy how much she enjoyed him touching her and "making out".
Bergmann was supposed to get married (Image: Facebook)
Enraged, the victim's dad then stormed into the school with printouts of the disturbing texts, according to investigators. Police also found a secret folder in her classroom with the boy's name and handwritten notes about their kisses.
Some notes allegedly read: "I love you, want to kiss you, you turn me on, and I am obsessed with you." The two reportedly exchanged 33,000 messages, many of which were sexual, discussing touching, kissing, and the teacher's arousal in class.
Madison Bergmann, a former 5th-grade teacher, pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct charges involving an 11-year-old student and over 30,000 text messages. . Law&Crime’s Jesse Weber @jessecordweber takes a closer look at some of the biggest moments from her plea hearing. pic.twitter.com/jkyyuXTzQF
According to New York Post records, several other serious charges were dropped as part of a plea deal, including first-degree sexual assault of a child, using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime, exposing a child to harmful descriptions, and additional counts of sexual misconduct by school staff and child enticement. Her defence attorney has previously claimed prosecutors "overcharged" her.
A judge disagreed, saying detectives had shown enough probable cause for felony charges to move forward. Bergmann is set to be sentenced this year on December 22.
The former teacher was arrested just three months before her planned July wedding. The ceremony was abruptly cancelled after the allegations surfaced.
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