The ex-fiance of a former elementary school teacher in Wisconsin, accused of kissing an 11-year-old student, appears to be on speaking terms with her.
“They still talk, as far as I know,” a friend of Sam Hickman told the New York Post.
“But obviously, everything has changed. He was betrayed in a really big way, but he was madly in love, and you can’t just turn that off.”
Hickman and Madison Bergmann were engaged and set to be married on July 27, but those plans were called off.
Bergmann, 24, was charged in May with first-degree child sexual assault of a child under age 13.
She apparently is now living with her grandparents on their farm in an effort to avoid her friends and associates.
“She seems embarrassed to face us,” the friend said. “She’s ghosted everyone, which is kind of to be expected.”
Court documents say Bergmann was a teacher in Hudson, a town on the St. Croix River that borders Minnesota, when she allegedly became romantic with a child, kissing him several times in her classroom.
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She is also accused of moving the boy’s desk so that he could be closer to her and she could rub his legs while class was in session.
Court records allege the teacher was busted after the boy’s parents read numerous lustful text messages on his phone. The father marched angrily to the principal’s office with printouts of the offending messages.
Following a search of Bergmann’s backpack, police allegedly found a folder with the boy’s name on it and handwritten letters.
“In her notes she tells him that she loves him, wants to kiss him, he turns her on, and that she is obsessed with him,” the court documents alleged.
After being confronted with the letters, Bergmann invoked her right to an attorney.
After the charge was filed, Bergmann resigned from the school.