Former Stratford Teacher Pleads Guilty in Student Sex Case: Report

STRATFORD, CT — Former Stratford elementary school teacher Michelle Sulzicki, 29, pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges that she had a two-year sexual relationship with a 12-year-old boy she had tutored at his Stratford home, according to the Connecticut Post.

Sulzicki faces up to four years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a child, reports Daniel Tepfer of the Post.

She faced up to 30 years in prison if convicted of the charges through a trial, according to Tepfer.

Sulzicki, an Oxford resident and former special education teacher in the Stratford school system, was arrested by Stratford Police last October after police were contacted about allegations of inappropriate conduct between a teacher’s aide and a juvenile.

Sulzicki had been charged with first-degree sexual assault, second-degree sexual assault, illegal sexual contact with a minor and risk of injury to a minor.

The boy, who told police he had sex with Sulzicki between 15-20 times over a two-year period, came forward to officials out of fear that he might be the father of her baby, according to NBC Connecticut.

Police sources previously told the Post that the boy likely is the father of Sulzicki’s young daughter.

When she was interviewed by Stratford police detectives, Sulzicki initially denied having any sexual contact with the boy but then admitted they had sex once when he was in sixth grade, according to the Hartford Courant. She also denied that the boy was the father of her daughter.

Sulzicki also told detectives that she “did not charge the family for tutoring the victim and did it voluntarily,” according to the Courant.

Read more about Tuesday’s court appearance and guilty plea at the Connecticut Post here.

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