Police Claim Teacher Used Witchcraft for Sex with Girl
4 December 2004
AP
SOUTH HAVEN, Mich. - A teacher practiced witchcraft with a 14-year-old girl she was sexually abusing and "wed" her in a pagan ritual, police said yesterday.
Elizabeth M., 36, a teacher at South Haven's Baseline Middle School, was arraigned Thursday on a charge of first-degree criminal sexual conduct.
She could face life in prison. She was jailed on $100,000 bond.
Elizabeth M., a seventh-grade language arts teacher, lives with another woman and their adopted son, authorities said.
The girl, a former student, told cops she and Elizabeth M. had five sexual encounters from June to October in the teacher's home and two parks.
Detective Sgt. Diane Oppenheim of the state police post in South Haven said the student - who was described as having emotional problems came to trust the teacher so much that she agreed to "marry" the woman in a pagan ritual.
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