Add The New York Post on Google The New Jersey teacher who was sentenced to 12 years in prison for having sex with an eighth grader was a married mother of two, who doted on her daughters, according to her social media posts.
Allison Havemann-Niedrach, a 45-year-old former special education teacher at Freehold Intermediate School, posted scores of photos on Instagram with her husband, Eric Niedrach, and their two girls in the years before authorities discovered her twisted tryst with the teen.
Havemann-Niedrach will spend the next 12 years in jail, a Monmouth County judge ruled on Friday after the victim, who was not identified, read an emotional impact statement in which he described their relationship as a “nightmare.”
He said that he forgave the former teacher — which caused her to break down crying in the courtroom.
Her husband and parents attended her legal proceedings before she pleaded guilty in January to sexually assaulting the boy when he was in eighth grade over a six-month period in 2024, Jersey Shore Online reported last year.
It was not immediately clear if Havemann-Niedrach and her husband are still married.
After his wife’s arrest, Eric Niedrach launched a desperate plea for money titled “Help provide normalcy” to keep her daughter in Taekwondo classes.
“I continue to stand by my wife and my daughters as I believe in grace and forgiveness and I believe that is what Jesus would do,” he wrote on the online fundraiser page, which only raised a paltry $85 out of the $4,000 requested.
“Additionally, my mother taught me that God is good all the time, even when it doesn’t feel that way. I believe there is a bigger picture being painted by His hand, and I know my family and I will come out stronger on the other side,” he continued.
“Allison is doing ok. She is receiving the mental help she has desperately needed all of her life but was denied by her family,” he wrote.
Officials began investigating Havemann-Niedrach after the school’s vice principal reported concerns about her relationship with the teen when another teacher allegedly saw her rubbing his neck and back, touching his leg, and flirting.
She became “obsessed” with the boy, and sent him a whopping 25,000 text messages during the fling, prosecutors said.
The boy bragged to his friends he was dating his teacher and eventually told cops he had sex with the teacher after his mom dragged him to the police station.
“People were saying that the teacher was texting, that they were texting each other inappropriate pictures,” said Heather Kotler, the mother of another boy in the victim’s grade, told Jersey Shore Online.
“This was something that all the eighth-grade students were talking about,” Kotler said.
Havemann-Niedrach was arrested at her parents’ home on June 27, 2024, according to bodycam footage obtained by Jersey Shore Online.
She did not appear surprised and told the officers that her phone had been “destroyed.”
“I lost it today and it got run over,” she said in the clip.
Havemann-Niedrach must serve at least 85% of her sentence as part of a plea deal, Jill G. O’Malley ruled.
She’s also required to become a registered sex offender and her teaching certifications have been revoked.
Havemann-Niedrach was ordered to never contact the victim or his family ever again.
