Employees at schools across America continue to sadly have relations with underage teenagers and that is the case in New Jersey now for 39-year-old Tara Cardinale. She serves as a clinical social worker at a private high school, but was arrested last week for having sexual relations with a student who was under 18, according to the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office.
According to NJ.com, the school that Cardinale reportedly worked at was New Alliance Academy. Prosecutors originally did not want to reveal the name of the school. They added that Cardinale invited the student to her house on multiple occasions and she had sex with him both times. She is facing charges of one count of endangering the welfare of a child and one count of criminal sexual contact.
Paramus Police were first notified of the sexual relations on December 29 and they started to crack down on her from that point. Cardinale is being held at the Bergen County Jail. She appeared in court for the first time today.
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