08-02-2005, 06:02 PM
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COLONIE -- A former English teacher at Christian Brothers Academy is scheduled to surrender to police on Monday to face felony rape charges in connection with two incidents involving a former student.
The teacher, 42-year-old Sandra "Beth" Geisel, was fired from her job at the private all-boys school last month after police in Cohoes allegedly found her in a parked car with another one of her students, who was 17.
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Geisel, formerly of Long Shadow Drive, Latham, became the focus of a police investigation after that June 11 incident in Cohoes. A police officer who responded to a call for a parked car left running and with its lights on said he found Geisel and the boy in the back seat of the car in the town's hillside neighborhood. The boy, who has not been identified, and Geisel both allegedly lied to the officer about their ages, according to a copy of the police report.
There were no criminal charges filed in connection with that incident because the boy was older than 16. In New York, a child 16 or younger cannot legally consent to have sex with an adult.
As word of Geisel's firing spread through the CBA community, another boy, who is 16, went to Colonie police with his father and alleged he had sex with the teacher on two occasions, according to police. One of the alleged incidents took place in Colonie and the other at a home in Ravena, authorities close to the case said.
Geisel left the area after being fired from CBA, but has negotiated with police to turn herself in at Colonie police headquarters on Monday.
"We understand that they're going to file charges, and she'll be appearing voluntarily to answer the charges," Donald T. Kinsella, Geisel's attorney, said Friday, declining further comment.
Geisel is expected to be charged with two counts of third-degree rape, a felony, according to law enforcement officials close to the case. A grand jury also is scheduled to review the case late next week, the officials said.
School officials at CBA have been criticized by many parents for keeping the matter private. A month after Geisel was fired, the school sent a letter to parents stating that a teacher, who was not identified, had been terminated for having inappropriate contact with a student.
That same week, Colonie police confirmed they had opened a criminal investigation.
Geisel, who has three sons and a daughter, has been estranged for about a year from her husband, Thomas Geisel, 43, who heads commercial banking in the Northeast and New England for KeyBank. He also is president of KeyBank in the Capital Region.
School officials said Geisel was hired as an English teacher at the school when she began working there last year. She subsequently took a job as a paid volunteer, running the school's writing lab. In that post, she regularly worked one-on-one with students and helped them with writing assignments.
COLONIE, N.Y. (AP) - A former English teacher at a Catholic high school was charged Monday with rape for allegedly having sex with an underage student. Sandra "Beth" Geisel, 42, was charged with two counts of third-degree rape and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, police said. Geisel was initially found by police in a parked car with a 17-year-old student in June. Though no charges were filed in that incident because the teen was of legal age, Geisel was fired from her teaching job at Christian Brother's Academy in suburban Albany. During that investigation, a 16-year-old boy came forwarded and said he had sexual intercourse with Geisel on two separate occasions, leading to the charges against her, police said. Geisel, who now lives in Summit, N.J., turned herself in to police on Monday. (Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) AP-NY-08-01-05 1913EDT
Former CBA Teacher Turns Herself In on Sex Charges
August 1
A FORMER TEACHER AT CHRISTIAN BROTHERS ACADEMY IN COLONIE IS BEING HELD WITHOUT BAIL---ACCUSED OF HAVING SEX WITH AN UNDER-AGE STUDENT. 42-YEAR OLD SANDRA "BETH" GEISEL DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING AS SHE TURNED HERSELF INTO COLONIE POLICE. GEISEL WAS FIRED FROM HER JOB LAST MONTH WHEN SHE WAS BUSTED IN COHOES HAVING SEX WITH A 17-YEAR OLD STUDENT. SHE WASN'T ARRESTED THEN, BECAUSE 17 IS THE LEGAL AGE OF CONSENT IN NEW YORK STATE. BUT SINCE THEN, ANOTHER STUDENT, THIS ONE 16, HAS COME FORWARD, CLAIMING HE HAD SEX WITH GEISEL TOO. SHE'S CHARGED WITH TWO COUNTS OF RAPE---BECAUSE, ACCORDING TO POLICE CHIEF STEVE HYDER, SHE ALLEGEDLY HAD SEX WITH THE 16-YEAR OLD TWICE, INCLUDING ONCE IN THE FOOTBALL FIELD PRESS BOX. THE PRINCIPAL AT C-B-A REFUSED TO COMMENT. SOURCES TELL US, THE 16-YEAR OLD'S CREDIBILITY MAY BE CALLED INTO QUESTION---WE'RE TOLD HE WAS RECENTLY EXPELLED FROM THE SCHOOL FOR VANDALISM ---AND MAY BE TRYING TO GET REVENGE. HYDER SAYS---HE WON'T COMMENT ON THAT.
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