Police: Accused teacher tells bizarre tale
by KTAR Newsroom (February 3rd, 2009 @ 8:39am)
A Phoenix teacher accused of having sex with a teenage boy told police she was trying to keep the teen from having sex with her goddaughter, according to a police report.
Rosanna Brown, 49, who teaches English to seventh and eighth graders at Ed Pastor Elementary School, was arrested last weekend on three counts of sexual conduct with a minor.
A police report released Monday said the 14-year-old boy whom Brown is accused of abusing was dating Brown's 14-year-old goddaughter, and Brown thought the kids were planning on going too far.
Brown allegedly snatched the girl's cell phone and used it to lure the boy to a dark motel room, where she pretended to be his girlfriend, according to the police report. It continued that the boy told investigators he did not know who he was being intimate with until the two had sex.
After the sexual assault, the boy phoned his mother, saying a woman he identified as his English teacher, had assaulted him, according to authorities.
The boy's mother convinced her son to allow her to accompany him back to the hotel room where the victim's mother then confronted the suspect before calling the sheriff's office.
Brown was booked into the Fourth Avenue Jail.
Brown has been a teacher for 28 years.

