The staggering number of explicit text messages a Wisconsin elementary school teacher is accused of exchanging with an 11-year-old boy has been revealed.
Madison Bergmann, 24, sent a staggering 33,000 saucy text messages to the young man earlier this year, school resource officer Traci Hall testified at a preliminary hearing in St. Croix County Circuit Court on Monday. . according to the New York Post.
Those text messages became more sexually explicit as Bergmann and the student’s conversations continued, eventually becoming so X-rated that the teacher bowed her head in shame when they were read in court.
Bergmann, who was abandoned by her fiancé for her repulsive actions, now faces 10 felony charges, including first-degree child sexual assault, child seduction and multiple counts of sexual misconduct.
But their lawyers have argued that the charges should be dropped, saying the text messages were not specific enough to prove touching.
Madison Bergmann, 24, allegedly sent a staggering 33,000 saucy text messages to an 11-year-old boy earlier this year.
A Wisconsin judge heard arguments to determine whether to drop those charges on Monday, when prosecutor Karl Anderson read aloud some of the disturbing text messages.
He noted that the text messages between Bergmann and his student became even more explicit on April 27.
‘There is a conversation about the toughness of the victim and whether she felt that during the hug. Did you admit that you were sorry? Anderson asked Hall as he took the stand.
“Yes,” the school resource officer testified, according to the Post.
‘What else did she say?’ the prosecutor pressed.
“That she would wear dresses more often because she liked the way he touched her leg,” Hall responded.
‘Does Ms. Bergmann ever allude to being sexually aroused in text messages?’ the prosecutor continued.
“Talk about being wet in the classroom,” Hall admitted, as Bergmann looked down.
The text messages became so racy that the former teacher hung her head in shame as they were read in court Monday. She appears in the photo at a previous hearing.
In other text messages that were previously revealed in court, the boy allegedly wrote: ‘You were touching my chest a lot.’
In another, Bergmann allegedly told the boy, “I love having my hand on your chest.” I could feel your heart beating so much hahaha.’
The victim later reportedly responded, “Haha, it was beating really fast.” I was very surprised and I loved it because you kept kissing me.
Bergmann allegedly wrote at another time: “When everyone was cleaning up after reading, I was in front and so were you, and I touched your chest,” he allegedly wrote.
“When I grabbed your shirt and pulled you closer to me, oh my god… I want to lick your abs haha.”
Bergmann’s defense attorneys have insisted that he is being overcharged for his alleged actions.
But Bergmann’s defense attorneys have insisted that he is being overcharged for his alleged actions, arguing in court that the text messages alone are not enough to support five counts of sexual misconduct.
“There is never any language where she says, ‘I want to have sex with you,’ or he says, ‘I want you to do this with me,'” said attorney Joseph Tamburino.
‘They talked a lot about kisses, lips, cheeks and touching each other’s legs. They also talk about some sexual issues, obviously, a woman’s body and a man’s body.
“But nothing like ‘this is what I want you to do to me’ or ‘this is what I’ll do to you.'”
However, a judge found the text messages admissible as evidence of sexual misconduct.
“It is clear to me that the state has met its burden of finding probable cause that the defendant has committed a serious crime,” the judge ruled. It’s clear that today the detective has presented probable cause.
“The case will surely go to trial.”
Bergmann’s alleged sexual misconduct first came to light on April 29, after the young man’s mother overheard a phone call between the teacher and the victim.
Bergmann’s alleged sexual misconduct first came to light on April 29, after the young man’s mother overheard a phone call between the teacher and the victim. Her father then confiscated her phone and discovered the sexually charged messages.
He supposedly saw a message in which Bergmann told the boy that ‘I simply wanted to grab (his) face and push him to the ground and kiss him,’ according to a criminal complaint.
In another text, he allegedly wrote: “I almost kissed you when you were on the floor today but I got distracted by your stomach.”
The boy’s father then turned over the printed text messages between Bergmann and his son to authorities and authorities.
She was fired from her teaching position when she was arrested in April.
It was later revealed that Bergmann allegedly moved the boy’s desk out of sight so she could rub his legs during class at River Crest Elementary School.
During a subsequent interview with police, Bergmann allegedly told authorities that the victim’s mother gave her the student’s phone number after the family invited her to Afton Alps, a ski resort, over winter break.
Upon searching Bergmann’s purse, officers found handwritten notes between the two kept in a folder emblazoned with the victim’s name, according to charging documents.
“In her notes she tells him that she loves him, wants to kiss him, that he turns her on and that she is obsessed with him,” the complaint states.
In one letter, Bergmann allegedly wrote: “One of my cousins is in fifth grade and I can’t imagine a man talking to her the way we talk.” I know we have a special relationship and I love you more than anyone in the world, but I have to be the adult here and stop.
Police also spoke with the boy, who “made comments about really liking her, trusting her, feeling weird but also liking her,” according to the complaint.
When asked about the text message exchange between her and the student, Bergmann invoked her right to an attorney, according to the documents. She was then arrested and fired from her teaching role.
The former teacher was due to marry her classmate Sam Hickman in July, but the plans were scrapped due to what Hickman described as “f***ing behaviour” on the part of her now ex-fiancé.
It was later revealed that Bergmann allegedly moved the boy’s desk out of sight so she could rub his legs during class at River Crest Elementary School.
The fifth-grade student told investigators that Bergmann rubbed his thigh and calves during independent reading time, according to a criminal complaint filed in St. Croix District Court.
The boy also told investigators that they kissed several times in the classroom since March, that Bergmann was his first kiss and that they secretly fondled each other, according to charging documents.
The former teacher was due to marry her classmate Sam Hickman in July, but the plans were scrapped due to what Hickman described as “f***ing behaviour” on the part of her now ex-fiancé.
“It’s been postponed indefinitely,” a friend of the couple told New York Post.
‘He is really very hurt. Not talking about it too much, just like “this is fucked up.” He’s still in shock.
“Not only did she cheat on him, but she also cheated on him with a little boy.”
He pleaded guilty to all charges and is expected to appear in court on October 7 for his preliminary hearing. Bergmann faces up to 178 years in prison if convicted.
