Teacher charged in sexual liaison with teen

Kathy Boccello
Thru, May 21, 2009
www.philly.com

Heather Zeo, 37, has been charged with having sex with a 17 year-old student and sending sexually explicit internet and phone messages to another 17 year old student. Heather worked as a teacher at North Penn High School since 2001 and is the mother of three children. Police said the 11th and 12th grade teacher used Facebook to contact the students. One of the students said that after he got a friend request from the teacher they kissed and touched during her prep period in her classroom six or seven times. The two had sex in her minivan and during school. Police said that Zeo contacted another student on Facebook and told him that she would have sex with him if they were alone. She then invited him to her classroom, but he never went. The boy told authorities they had five or six sexually explicit conversations. The school district told police and she was suspended.

I think that Zeo should be charged because she contacted boys and invited them to have sex in her classroom. The reporters writing was very clear. The key information that was left out was thatBoccello didn’t get a comment from Zeo. The reporter remained unbiased in her writing and didn’t talk about how she felt about Zeo sleeping with 17 year old boys. However the article could have been improved by getting a statement from some of the teachers at North Penn High School.

By Ariel S.