A teenage boy who got his New Jersey teacher pregnant when he was 13 and she was 28, has insisted he instigated the relationship.
The boy, who DailyMail is not naming, said in an extraordinary exclusive interview that he doesn’t want Laura Caron, 34, to face trial and is standing by her.
Former college basketball player Caron is awaiting trial and potentially facing 10 years in prison on charges she r@ped the boy, who moved in with her when he was just 11.
But the boy in question, who is now 19 years old, insists he doesn’t feel like a victim, loves Caron with all his heart, and is hoping they can be a family soon.
Prosecutors say she preyed on the youngster and subjected him to years of abuse before allegedly having his child in 2019.
It was gathered that the pair kept the romance secret, and Caron supposedly told friends at a baby shower that the father was ‘out of the picture’.
The relationship only emerged years later when the boy’s father saw a photograph of Caron’s then-toddler daughter and noted the uncanny resemblance with his son.
Now Caron, if convicted, could be facing a decade behind bars on aggravated sexual assault in a case that has sent shockwaves through the school and local community.
In an interview with DailyMail, the boy said she shouldn’t be jailed and insists he was ‘wasn’t groomed’ by Coran.
‘They need to drop all charges. I wasn’t groomed or raped or manipulated by her. She never initiated anything,’ he told DailyMail
‘I started everything. If it was up to me she wouldn’t have been in jail. It’s been six or seven years. I’m 19 about to be 20.’
The teen rejected any suggestion the alleged abuse happened when he was 11, calling the allegations ‘crazy’.
Caron declined to comment on the sordid allegations as she left a bail hearing in Cape May, New Jersey, on January 21.
Caron is scheduled back in court on February 25 for another hearing.
