By YOAV GONEN
May 30, 2008
A 22-year-old female high school teacher was arrested yesterday for having sex with a 15-year-old boy as part of a three-on-one sex romp, authorities said.
Janmattie Singh, an English teacher at Richmond Hill HS in Queens, was slapped with statutory rape and other charges stemming from the Jan. 23 encounter with the boy and his two 18-year-old relatives, officials said.
She pleaded not guilty in Brooklyn Criminal Court and was released on bail, according to her lawyer, Kumar Paturi.
Singh had arranged the after-school affair by phone with one of the 18-year-old boys - a former student of hers at Richmond Hill, according to a spokeswoman for the Office of the Special Commissioner of Investigation. The rendezvous occurred at a Brooklyn apartment of one of the boys.
Investigators later recorded phone conversations between Singh and the boys during which she admitted having extracurricular coitus with the 15-year-old, a law-enforcement official said. She had also expressed interest in a repeat encounter with the kid - until she learned he was only 15, the official said.
Paturi said his client was on medical leave after having suffered a nervous breakdown earlier in the school year.
Singh will be placed on the Education Department's ineligible list.
