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2005-08-10 01:29 | User Profile
(Lesbian) Teacher who 'married' student in pagan ritual tried for sexual assault
By Jessica Su Court TV
A female teacher who police said wed a 15-year-old female student in a pagan ritual is due in court Tuesday for the first of two trials.
Elizabeth Miklosovic, 37, is accused of having illegal sexual relations with her former student after the June 2004 wedding. The teacher will first stand trial in Kent County Circuit Court in Grand Rapids, Mich., on three counts each of first-and second-degree criminal sexual contact.
Authorities said she assaulted the girl in her Grand Rapids home, where another female companion and adopted son also lived.
Miklosovic is also accused of touching the girl's genitals while camping in Manistee and Van Buren County parks. She is scheduled to stand trial in Van Buren County Circuit Court in Paw Paw on May 10 for two counts of criminal sexual conduct and accosting a minor for immoral purposes.
If convicted of the first-degree charge, Miklosovic faces life in prison.
The ex-student, whose name has not been released for safety concerns, claimed she was assaulted from June to August last year.
Two years ago, the language arts teacher befriended the then-seventh grader during a class at South Haven's Baseline Middle School. The girl told a fellow classmate about the relationship, and the information eventually reached police.
"The teacher was trying to help the student work through her emotional issues," South Haven police trooper Daniel Diekema said. "I think that's how the relationship started."
Last June, Miklosovic asked the student's parents for permission to take her on a camping trip in Manistee National Forest. Thinking Miklosovic sought to mentor their vulnerable daughter, the family complied, State Police Sgt. Diane Oppenheim told the Grand Rapids Press newspaper.
Instead, the teacher and the girl lit candles, chanted and exchanged vows in the forest. The pagan wedding ceremony included exchanging a braided piece of cloth, which the student kept, Oppenheim said.
Miklosovic said she also gave the student a book on witchcraft "because she knew she was interested in it," Oppenheim told the Grand Rapids Press.
In Kent County, the girl testified that she still had feelings for her former teacher. Her relatives told the Grand Rapids Press that Miklosovic brainwashed her into thinking no crime was committed.
Local pagans have denounced Miklosovic's actions.
"Using authority as a teacher to coerce a minor into sex is completely abhorrent," said Susan Conklin, spokesperson for Kalamazoo Pagan Pride, a non-profit organization in Michigan. "It's against the ethical stands we hold ourselves to."
Paganism, an umbrella term encompassing all earth-centered religions, seeks to respect life, Conklin said.
Kent County prosecutor Kevin Bramble and Van Buren County prosecutor Mike Bedford would not comment on their cases.
Miklosovic, who taught in South Haven for three years before being fired in January, was highly regarded. School officials said she helped raise test scores and received no other complaints from students or parents. She had no prior criminal record, according to state police records.
"There are serious inconsistencies in the alleged victim's story that will be explored at trial," said defense attorney Jon Shabluk.
During pretrial testimony in Kent County, the girl had trouble incriminating Miklosovic.
"I can't do this," the tearful teen said several times.
Shabluk also said Van Buren County jailers denied Miklosovic medicine and oxygen for diseases that weakened her lungs. He threatened to file a civil suit.
The Kent County trial is expected to last two weeks.
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2005-08-10 03:48 | User Profile
"Authorities said she assaulted the girl in her Grand Rapids home, where another female companion and adopted son also lived."
Homosexual women form these strange, sick covens, but tell you something you don't know ... I knew this one lesbian couple that had a boy thru IVF. A third woman lived in the house too. When the boy would ask who his dad was, they told him his dad had "died." F***ing freaks.
Some people hypothesize that adult homosexuals reproduce by seducing vulnerable teenagers.
"Using authority as a teacher to coerce a minor into sex is completely abhorrent," said Susan Conklin, spokesperson for Kalamazoo Pagan Pride, a non-profit organization in Michigan. "It's against the ethical stands we hold ourselves to."
Paganism, an umbrella term encompassing all earth-centered religions, seeks to respect life, Conklin said.
Amusing.