Overview
- Julie Rizzitello, 37, pleaded guilty in 2024 to two counts of second-degree sexual assault involving two students.
- Prosecutors said sexual acts occurred at her Brick home, in a vehicle, and at her family’s Belmar bagel shop where both teens worked at her suggestion.
- One victim was groomed from his freshman year with intercourse in 2017–2018, while a second student had sexual contact in spring 2024 after turning 18.
- The sentencing hearing disclosed she became pregnant by the first victim and later had an abortion, which the judge cited in describing the emotional harm.
- The court also imposed lifetime parole supervision, sex-offender registration, a no-contact order, and permanent forfeiture of her teaching job, and prosecutors said she asked victims to delete evidence after her 2024 arrest.