Madison Bergmann, teacher busted for ‘making out’ with 11-year-old, wants OK to be around kids again
Madison Bergmann, the Wisconsin teacher busted for allegedly “making out” with an 11-year-old in her classroom, is asking a judge if it’s OK to be around kids again.
An attorney for the 24-year-old former teacher — who blew up her impending wedding when she was charged with first-degree child sexual assault on May 2 — filed the request to clarify the conditions of her bond.
Currently, she’s barred from being in any place where children are present. In a motion filed in late July, her attorney said she wants to know whether she can visit restaurants and shop at stores where there could be children.
Bergman has also filed a motion to dismiss the criminal complaint — and that request is not sitting well with her former colleagues at River Crest Elementary School in Hudson, Wisconsin — which is in the far west of the state near Minneapolis.
“It’s ridiculous,” groused an elementary teacher. “She has left a wake of destruction at the school, and she thinks she shouldn’t face the consequences for that?”
The teacher told The Post that Bergmann’s firing set off a chain reaction at the school. Another fifth grade teacher also resigned at the following school board meeting.
School board members said that the teacher may have known about Bergmann’s behavior but did not report it. That educator has not been charged with any crime.
“It’s been a weird summer,” says Bergmann’s former colleague. “We’re all answering parents’ questions. When it comes to kids, everyone is so protective, and rightly so. But when two fifth-grade teachers get fired as part of a sex scandal, you have idea how crazy things can get.”
According to the criminal complaint, Bergmann’s alleged abuse of the 11-year-old boy came to light when the student’s mother overheard her son talking to the teacher on the phone. Suspicious, the parents checked the boy’s phone and allegedly found salacious texts between the pair.
The deranged text chain allegedly included messages from Bergmann allegedly discussing multiple encounters inside the classroom during lunch or after school. She allegedly told the child how much she enjoyed him touching her and “making out.”
Some of the alleged assaults even happened in Bergmann’s fifth-grade classroom, according to the complain.
The the boy’s father then stormed into River Crest Elementary School with printouts of the conversations, authorities said.
“That was a dramatic day,” the River Crest teacher told The Post. “He was not calm about it, and he was not quiet.”
After Bergmann was arrested, she was released on a $25,000 signature bond. She is living in seclusion on her grandparents’ farm, family sources said.
The school district vows to seek whatever justice is necessary in the case.
“The district continues to work with law enforcement on this situation,” Hudson Schools Superintendent Nick Ouellette said in a May school board meeting. “We are conducting our own investigation to determine what other actions should have been taken.”
Bergmann was supposed to get married in July — but the nuptials never happened. At the time, a friend told The Post that the accusations blindsided the groom-to-be, Sam Hickman.
“He’s really, really hurt. Not talking too much about it, just like, ‘This is f–ked up,’” the groom’s friend said. “He says it was f–ked up that she cheated with a little kid.”
An attorney for Bergmann has not returned The Post’s requests for comment.
