Crime Fix with Angenette Levy - 'Obsessed' Teacher CRIES Over Student Sex Plea

Episode Date: September 1, 2026

Allison Havemann-Niedrach is going to prison for sexually abusing a teenage boy who was a student at the school where she taught in New Jersey. Havemann-Niedrach pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated sexual assault. The judge had once said Havemann-Niedrach was "obsessed" with the boy after she exchanged 25,000 sexually explicit text messages with him. Law&Crime's Angenette Levy looks at the case and sentence in this episode of Crime Fix — a daily show covering the biggest stories in crime.Host:Angenette Levy  https://twitter.com/Angenette5Guest: Jonna Spilbor https://www.instagram.com/jonna_spilbor/CRIME FIX PRODUCTION:Head of Social Media, YouTube - Bobby SzokeSocial Media Management - Vanessa BeinVideo Editing - Van DinhGuest Booking - Alyssa Fisher & Diane KayeSTAY UP-TO-DATE WITH THE LAW&CRIME NETWORK:Watch Law&Crime Network on YouTubeTV: https://bit.ly/3td2e3yWhere To Watch Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3akxLK5Sign Up For Law&Crime's Daily Newsletter: https://bit.ly/LawandCrimeNewsletterRead Fascinating Articles From Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3td2IqoLAW&CRIME NETWORK SOCIAL MEDIA:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lawandcrime/Twitter: https://twitter.com/LawCrimeNetworkFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/lawandcrimeTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lawandcrimenetworkTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lawandcrimeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The sexual abuse was not, as she suggests, the trauma bond between her and the victim. A former teacher admits to the unthinkable, having sex with a student and sending him thousands and thousands of tawdry text. Now that teacher cries as she finds out how much time she's getting and hears from the boy that she victimized. I'm Janette Levy, and this is Crime Fix. Allison Havenman-Nedrock is a mother. She was a teacher. And now she's a convicted felon and one of the newest residents of New Jersey's prison system. Havenman-needrock is doing hard time behind bars after she admitted to using her position as a teacher to target a student for sex. A student she should have been mentoring and looking out for. Instead, prosecutors say Havenman-Nedrock, a special education teacher, had sex with a teen. age boy who was in eighth grade at the time. In January 2024, Havenman-Needrock was a teacher at

Freehold Intermediate School, and it was at that time that police and prosecutors say the mother and teacher started a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy. And now that woman has learned her punishment. And before we get into that, I want to take a look back at that night in June of 24 when Freehold Borough Police paid Allison Havenman Needrock a visit. Good evening. Yes. Detective Hernandez, Freeholdboro Police Department. It's Allison home?

May I speak with her police? No, we'll talk to her out here. Thank you. Hi, Michelle. How you doing? Detective Hernandez, Realtor Police Department, Detective Correa, Detective Hobbs. You know where we're here? No?

Any idea? You want to move away from the house to speak to? I don't feel comfortable talking about my attorney present. Okay, no problem. Thank you. We have a warrant for your arrest, so we're going to take you in. Is there anything on you that you want to leave with your family? No, my glasses come with me.

Do I have medication that I need to bring with me? If you take medication, I will highly suggest for you to have someone get it for you. Okay, just give me a second. I don't have a phone. It got destroyed, actually. I lost it today and got run over. School District officials had reported their suspicions about Havenman-Ned-Roeck to police, and detectives took the complaint seriously.

You heard Havenman-Nedrock mentioned that her phone had been run over that day. Very convenient, since text and video will become the centerpiece of the state's case against her. I don't have a phone. It got destroyed, actually. I lost it today and got run over. Okay. Just have them bring the, the, medicine. Here I gotta put you on their cops though. Okay. Alright. I'm not gonna hurt you in any shape or form. This is gonna go on gently, right? Still good? Okay. Okay. Let me say it. My husband's here with my kids. Okay. Thank you and I see your parents there. Yeah my parents are here. They're fine. My kids are safe. Alright. Do me a fair. Go like this. I do have a lot of medical

issues. I'm sorry. Okay. Okay. Overall. Prosecutors will later say that Allison Havenman-Nedrock exchanged more than 25,000 sexually explicit text messages with the student. 25,000! And there was more videos of Havenman-Ned-Roc and the boy together, having sex. At a hearing in July 2024, Jersey Shore Online reported that a prosecutor said that other teachers saw Havenan-needrock rubbing the victim's neck and back and flirting with him and noticed her touching his leg. A vice principal reported concerns to police at the beginning of June of 2024. Police contacted the boy's mother, who was also concerned because her daughter had seen her brother sitting in Havenman-Nedric's car, and he was on the phone late at night. The victim had also told a friend that he was dating a teacher. The boy denied anything was going on with Havenan-Nedric and claimed he was dating her daughter, according to the Asbury Park Press, while a prosecutor told the judge that it was clear that Havenan-needric was obsessed.

with the boy. Now more than two years after Allison Haveman-Nedric's arrest, she has pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated sexual assault in the first degree. Haveman-Nedric's attorney asked for a 10-year sentence less than the 12-year negotiated sentence. We have audio from the sentencing. Take a listen. When the individual does have a significant history of both psychological, physical, and mental scenarios that clearly are not treated the same way within the prison system as they would be outside. Beyond the fact that she is a mother of two and she has her family, that is not sufficient to find mitigating factor 11. I recognize that. However, I'd ask the court to consider the whole, especially the notes in the psychological report, to find mitigating factor 11.

The prosecutor then asked that the judge imposed the 12-year sentence. She's asking the court, though, to focus kind of on her own suffering, as opposed to, which seems to be a kind of a continuing theme here when I was reading through the pre-sentence investigation report. And I'll get into that a little later regarding her, essentially indicating that the victim is the one that, you know, started all this, and she is the one that is essentially went along with it. With respect to her mental health and medical issues, the state's position is that these do not make the crime

any less serious, that the suffering experienced by the child who was sexually assaulted in this case should be taken into a greater consideration here. The state's gonna ask the court to find the following aggravating factors. The prosecutor outlined how Haveman Niedrich groomed the victim. She was showering with these presents, food, transportation, and as well as threatening that if he ended the relationship or he didn't pay enough attention to her or didn't answer his phone calls, that she would report

him to the principal at the school, essentially getting him in trouble. Then Haveman Niedrich spoke, begging for leniency. Yes, Your Honor, the only statement that I have is I take absolute accountability and apologize profusely for my actions to the family and to the victim involved in my case. I am moved by his forgiveness and I never expected that, but I appreciate it. I hope that the family can find peace and move forward and that he can find peace and find success. That's all. Then Judge Jill O'Malley sentenced Allison Haveman-Nedric to 12 years in prison.

It's the very thing she claims motivated her here, her own trauma. And I want to emphasize, you are his trauma. Judge O'Malley explained how badly Haveman-Nedric had impacted this boy. You ruined him. She took advantage of a vulnerable child. I place heavy weight and a special emphasis on the specifics of this case, including the victim's age and grade level and all the special circumstances surrounding this case. First, the defendant knew that the victim was vulnerable by virtue of his age and his status as a student. She prayed on him in a safe place.

And in this safe place, she isolated him. For, by example, having lunch with him alone in a classroom. And it must be emphasized that this safe place was not only a school. It was an intermediate school. It was not a high school. It was not an advanced learning center. This was a middle school. that educates children in grades six through eight.

These are all vulnerable, young, impressionable children. And that the defendant knew the age of these children is undeniable. She was a teacher in this school for years. The teenage boy, Haveman Needrick, admitted to sexually assaulting, told the judge that he blamed himself for a while for all of this and the crime caused him to want to end it all. So to discuss this very disturbing case and the sentence, I want to bring in John Spillbore. She is a criminal defense attorney who practices in New York and also the host of the

positively legal podcast on the MK True Crime Network. So thank you so much, Jana, for coming back on. Always a pleasure to be with you, Ann Jeanette. Yes, always love being on with you, Jana. So tell me your thoughts, first off, on the sentence that this teacher received. She got 12 years. I mean, a lot of times we don't hear about teachers, especially female teachers, getting lengthy prison sentences. But in this case, that's a pretty long sentence.

And that's what stood out to me the most about this case. Because normally you're right, when it's a female teacher involved with a male student, historically we have seen, I don't want to say slaps on the wrist. I mean, there have been, there has been some punishment. but we seem to be a little more lenient when it comes to that kind of teacher-student dynamic. And in this case, the book was almost literally thrown at this defendant. And, you know, I have to ask myself, I'm like, is it high time we do that? Like, why do we historically, I don't want to say we give a pass because we don't. They get felony convictions.

They do some sort of time usually or they're on probation. They have to register. so they're not getting a get out of jail free card. But we don't see them spend a whole lot of time behind bars. And she got 12 years. And that was kind of like splitting the baby because I believe her own attorneys were asking for 10. And the prosecution, I believe, was asking for 15. And the judge sort of came down in the middle and had some very choice words for this defendant in the meanwhile.

So is this the start of a new trend? Are we not going to be forgiving of female 10? teachers who are sexually assaulting teenage male students. And maybe it's high time we aren't as forgiving. What are your thoughts on that? Well, I think you're right. I think that we shouldn't be as forgiving. You know, every, I think every case has its own unique set of circumstances.

However, however, the bottom line is that you are a teacher. You're in a position of power and authority over a child. And as a teacher, you're an authority figure and you're almost like, you know, when you go to, when you send your kids to school, those people are there to care for your children, to guide them, to be people that they look to and look up to for guidance and help. And you trust that they're going to be safe with them. But this shows that that sometimes doesn't happen. And when you take on that role as a teacher, this is a teacher. my opinion, you take on that role of being a caregiver of sorts during the day for these students, a trusted advisor, you have a duty and a moral obligation to treat that child. Yes, there's a,

there's a boundary there, but almost treat that child as your own and teach them and nurture them. And you've totally violated that. So of course, I'm like, while each case may have its own set of circumstances, you violated not only just like a basic human moral obligation, but also the law. So I'm like, throw the book at them because if it's my kid and you're touching my kid and sending 25,000 texts to my kid, no, sorry, done. Like, no. And that was the other thing too. I mean, you hit it on the head.

Teachers are basically a stand-in parent between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. or whatever your school hours are. And the other thing that struck me about this case is that she was a special ed substitute. So that in itself tells you that the children that she was in charge of had some special needs, which made them, in my opinion, probably more vulnerable, which makes this even worse. And then the 25,000 text messages, who's got that kind of time? I mean, what kind of grooming? And like, seriously, I mean, look, no health. minded person is going to be sexually attracted to a child. But you see this pattern over and over again with these types of cases. Like, there is something really wrong. Like, it almost deserves its own

diagnosis. And I don't want to compare apples and oranges, but since we can't help, I mean, right now, the Lindsay Clancy case is all the rage. And that's really illuminating the whole idea of when people do something and they shouldn't be responsible because they're insane, for lack of a better word. And there is an element of insanity, not legal insanity, but there is an element of that that goes on in these cases. And the difference between a Lindsay Clancy who murdered her three children and a teacher who preys on a student is that invariably, the teachers absolutely know the difference from right and wrong. And that's part of the prong when you're analyzing whether somebody should be criminally responsible or not.

They all know the difference between right and wrong and that's easily provable. And that's where the analysis stops. And that's why we have this situation with this particular defendant and others who came before her. Too many others who have come before her. And we can see where she knew that this was wrong because when she was asked about it, she acted as if or tried to act as if, or I guess the child acted as if. he was dating her daughter. So there was an effort to hide this.

And then she's claiming when the cops go to pick her up, like, oh, I don't have a phone. It got run over today. How convenient when the cops show up. Your phone just like gets run over. You know, I don't know how many times, John, I've been out in the driveway or out and, you know, my phone gets just run over. Just run over. It's so it's, you know, just a little bit, as you said, of insanity. You know, this teacher, Allison, have him in need rock.

She tried to apologize. But I think that that apology was pretty empty in the mind of the judge, Jill O'Malley, who really let her have it because, you know, and you're right, this was a special education teacher. And so when you're talking about kids who, first of all, a lot of kids have, like, bad impulse control anyway. And then you're in the care of somebody who, you know, may have some special training and dealing with kids who may have some, you know,

educational needs or maybe some developmental delays. Right. And then you take advantage of that. I mean, it just makes it all that much worse. And the other thing that strikes me, because you're 100% right, is that look at it, let's analyze her behavior for a minute, right? So she's special ed. She's sending 25,000 text messages, buying,

sex toys and other gifts for this. This is a time-consuming obsession. Which leads me to my next point. Other people around must have noticed something off. I mean, I send a lot of text, right? I have to text a lot of people, clients, other attorneys, you, like a lot. I probably don't send $25,000 in a month. I don't know, but it doesn't consume me.

And that's kind of how the cat got out of the bag in this. one. I think other teachers noticed her behavior around this particular student was weird, and they saw something and they said something, thankfully. Yes, thankfully. And there were so many texts that the judge, in a prior hearing, basically said that Allison Havenman-Needrock was obsessed with this child. And so that, if a judge is saying what I'm seeing shows an obsession, I mean, that just like, brings to mind so much concern to me because an adult, a grown woman, should not be obsessed with a teenage boy, let alone any person. I mean, I'm not even sure that it's healthy to be

obsessed with your own husband. Because obsession, you know, makes it sound like an unhealthy compulsion. Right. Shoes. We can be obsessed with shoes. But beyond shoes, no. And that is, another, just another weird thing. But then it kind of goes back to there definitely is some sort of mental infirmity that happened in her mind and mind similar to hers, but it is not enough to overcome the criminal responsibility hurdle that goes along with this. And the other thing, and I know that she did try in her defense, and look, you know, you have to kind of do this. She pointed to her own that she had some sort of trauma. And she had some, so she was trying to make an excuse for her behavior. And I will tell you something that the judge said that I did not

like because I don't think you can make this comparison. The judge said words to the effect of, look, lady, this was not a one-time thing. This was not a one-off. Like you know, this was an obsession. Almost as if if it had been a one-off, it would be more forgivable. And I'm, my personal opinion, Angenet, I don't buy that. One-off is one too many. So I would not, Like, you know, should she have gotten 12 years if this was a one-time trist versus a six-month-long affair? Maybe not. But I, the act is still there. And it's still the same in my book.

I agree with you. One time is one too many. And maybe the judge just meant like, this didn't happen one time. It was like six months. But, yeah, I, you know, maybe that was a poor choice of words on her part. But, you know, when she tried to liken this to trauma bonding, come on. No, no, no, no. If you've got trauma, you need to go get help for that.

You're not going to trauma bond, you know, with a 15-year-old boy who you're causing trauma to. The judge even said that. You are his trauma. And this poor child is saying, basically, it's been a nightmare. And he blamed himself for so long. And then the kids at school made the connection that it was him. And that's really sad. And he almost became suicidal.

And he apologized to his mother. Like, I don't know if he apologized to his mother because he had lied about it or he apologized because he was the victim here. He doesn't need to apologize, you know, to anyone. He was, he was clearly the victim. And when something like this happens, he's going to, he's, the judge is right. He's going to suffer from trauma now because of that. And that's the thing that people sometimes overlook in these female teacher,

male student type cases, like they think that it doesn't leave any sort of scar. And I beg to differ with that. That's a memory and an experience that doesn't go away on its own for a kid. So the judge sent a message for sure. I don't know if she plans on appealing this. It's a strong message. And I have to say I agree with it. Yeah, I think it's the right, I think it was the right call. hopefully it sends a message to other teachers that they may not get the message but anybody else thinking about this type of thing i hope it does send a strong message to them johnness bullboard thank you so much as always for your time i appreciate it thank you love to be here thanks a lot alison hayman needruck has to serve 85% of her 12 year sentence in new jersey before she can be

released from prison and that's it for this episode of crime fix i'm janet levy thanks so much for being with me i'll see you back here next time Thank you.