A former Wall High School teacher sentenced this week for grooming and sexually assaulting two of her students was made pregnant by one of the young victims, a judge revealed at the hearing.
Reading from a court report, Judge Jill G. O’Malley said the teacher, Julie Rizzitello, 37, of Brick had told the victim she was unable to get pregnant when she had unprotected sex with him in his family’s home on his birthday in January 2018 when Rizzitello was 29.
Former Wall High School teacher Julie Rizzitello, who faces charges of having sex with a student, appears before Superior Court Judge Marc C. Lemiuex. Freehold, NJ Tuesday, July 16, 2024
«Weeks passed and she wanted him to come over her house and she wanted to get a pregnancy test,» O’Malley said in court, according to an audio recording of the hearing.
«Turns out she was pregnant. And she believed it was his baby,» O’Malley said. «She got an abortion. And he knew this because she told him the doctor told her she was eight weeks pregnant, which aligned with them having sex on his birthday.»
The section of the presentence investigation report O’Malley was reading from was based on the victim’s statement, she said.