“My daughter thought he was a problem kid,” another student’s mom told The Post. “She said that his desk got moved next to [Bergmann’s] a couple of months ago, and she just assumed that he was in trouble.
“When it was time for lunch, she’d ask him to stay after class,” the mom continued, “so that just fed into the idea that he was constantly getting into trouble.”
The alleged victim told cops a similar story.
According to a criminal complaint filed Thursday in St. Croix District Court, the fifth-grader told sex crime investigators that Bergmann would rub his thigh and calves during independent reading time.
Due to the strategic placement of his desk in her classroom at River Crest Elementary School in Hudson, “he did not believe any of the other kids would see it happening,” the complaint alleged.
The boy also confirmed to police that Bergmann would have him stay after class.
He claimed that Bergmann kissed him several times in her classroom, either after school or while the other students were at lunch.
Bergmann, 24, is charged with first-degree child sexual assault of a child under age 13.
The boy’s family had befriended Bergmann, even going with her on a ski trip to Afton Alps, a nearby resort.
Bergmann told authorities she received the boy’s number during that weekend.
Last week, the boy’s mother overheard a troubling phone call and alerted the boy’s father.
According to the complaint, the father confiscated the boy’s phone and read his text messages.
In one text, according to the complaint, Bergmann told the boy that she “wanted to just grab your face and push you to the floor and make out with you.”
In another text, she allegedly told him, “I almost kissed you when you were on the ground today, but I got distracted by your stomach.”
The boy’s enraged father printed out the texts and took them to the school. Authorities immediately opened an investigation.
Cops searched Bergmann’s backpack and allegedly found a folder with the victim’s name on it.
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