Lawyers for female teacher accused of grooming boy then having sex with him when he hit age of consent claim victim is partly to blame

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'The lawyer of a New Jersey middle school teacher who is accused of grooming her student from when he was 12 years old claimed the alleged victim was complicit and 'not a babe in the woods’.

Rocco Cipparone, Ashley Fisler's attorney, defended his client in court on Wednesday during a virtual hearing that lasted roughly an hour, according to the New York Post.

Fisler, who was employed at Orchard Valley Middle School, was arrested on March 23 after her alleged victim claimed they were in a sexual relationship in 2021 while he was her student and had sex with him at least six times.

A portion of the hearing centered around the 7,500 text messages exchanged between the former teacher and the boy.

'He's not texting like a kid…his texts are as graphic and direct as any I've seen from an adult,' Cipparone said.

'I'm not saying he's not the age he is, but this is not a babe in the woods scenario that Ms. Finley is creating from a risk and a danger perspective.''