Teacher Rapes Special Ed Student

We're all well aware of the epidemic of female teachers having sex with their students over the past several years. Now one Mandi Weeks has taken it to a new level of depravity.

A teacher faces charges that she raped a mentally disabled student, prosecutors said Thursday.

Mandi Weeks, 27, is charged in a criminal complaint with third-degree rape, criminal sexual act, and endangering the welfare of a child, according to prosecutors in Queens.

Authorities said the 15-year-old boy was abused while he was home on break from Devereux New York, a residential school for children with developmental disabilities and behavioral disorders in upstate Red Hook. Weeks has been a teacher there since February 2007.

Prosecutors said the boy was the victim of statutory rape at his Queens home. He also was abused while sitting in a car in a Queens parking lot on July 6.

The investigation began after the boy got on a subway looking for Weeks and got lost. His mother reported him missing to police, who discovered inappropriate e-mails from Weeks while going through the boy's computer in search of leads.

Apparently, poor Ms. Weeks was under a lot of pressure.

“I work in a residential school for students with multiple disabilities which is extremely stressful,” Weeks wrote on her Myspace page. “My students verbally and physically assault me almost on a daily basis. And people wonder why I started smoking. Hey, at least they are ultra lights. ....as if Klonopin 3 times a day wasn’t enough.”

The boy has an IQ of 50.