Children are so vulnerable. Special needs children are especially easy to manipulate.
October 21, 2008 - Mandi Weeks, 27, a Dutchess 
County teacher, pleaded guilty to third-degree rape. She faces six months in jail and 10 years probation when she is sentenced on Jan. 12, and will become a registered sex offender.
Authorities said the 15-year-old was abused while he was home on break from Devereux a residential school for children with developmental disabilities and behavioral disorders in upstate New York.
North County Gazette (Oct.21) Weeks was employed by Deverreux nd taught at Devereux New York, 40 Devereux Way in Red Hook. She was immediately dismissed upon her arrest.
Brown said that Weeks had intercourse with the 15-year-old boy last summer inside of his Queens home. The victim attends a year-round residential school for children with special needs. He was home on a break when the abuse occurred.
According to [District Attorney Richard] Brown, the investigation began when the victim boarded a subway in an effort to find the defendant and got lost. His mother reported him missing and police, in going through his computer in search of leads, discovered inappropriate e-mails from the defendant.
