Crime Fix with Angenette Levy - 'Obsessed' Teacher Makes Stunning Claim in Sex Case

Episode Date: January 23, 2026

Allison Havemann-Niedrach was described by a prosecutor in Monmouth County, New Jersey as being "obsessed" with a 15-year-old boy she was accused of having sex with over six months in 2024. Havemann-Niedrach was a special education teacher at Freehold Intermediate School when police went to her home in June 2024 to arrest her. Now, Havemann-Niedrach has entered into a plea agreement and could go to prison for more than a decade. Law&Crime's Angenette Levy unpacks the details of the plea in this episode of Crime Fix — a daily show covering the biggest stories in crime.PLEASE SUPPORT THE SHOW: You’re 30 seconds away from being debt free with PDS Debt. Get your free assessment and find the best option for you at https://PDSDebt.com/sidebar.Host:Angenette Levy  https://twitter.com/Angenette5Guest: Shari Botwin https://www.instagram.com/warriorbotwin7/CRIME FIX PRODUCTION:Head of Social Media, YouTube - Bobby SzokeSocial Media Management - Vanessa BeinVideo Editing - Daniel CamachoGuest 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.

I don't have a phone. It got destroyed, actually. I lost it today and got run over. Allison Havenman-Needrock said her phone was run over when the cops came looking for her after a teenage boy claimed they'd had sex and there were videos. You want to move away from the house to speak to? I don't feel comfortable talking about my attorney present. Now the former teacher is making a shocking admission. I'll explain. Welcome to Crime Fix. I'm Ann Jeanette Levy. Alison Havenman Needrock. She's gone from special ed teacher to admitted. sexual predator. This week, Havenman Needrock walked into a courtroom in Monmouth County, New Jersey,

and agreed to plead guilty to a felony charge that could send her to prison for more than a decade. Now, I've told you about this case before, but it's been a while. So let's go back to the beginning before we dig into the details of the plea agreement. In January 2024, Havenman Needrock was a teacher at Freehold Intermediate School, and it was at that time that police and prosecutors in New Jersey say the and teacher started a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy. The inappropriate relationship lasted for six months. School officials reported what they knew to police who went to her home to arrest her. Good evening. Detective Hernandez, Rio Borough Police Department, is Allison home? May I speak with her, please? Now, we'll talk to her out here. Thank you. Hi, Michelle. How are you doing?

Detective Hernandez, Police Department, Detective Correa, Detective Hobbs. You know where we're here? No? Any idea? Do you want to move away from the house?

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. Allison Havenman Needrock's phone is going to be very, very important in this case,

so let's go back to the video and listen to her talk about that phone again. Sorry, actually. I lost it today and got run over. Okay. Just have them bring the medicine. Okay. Here, I got to put you on their cuff, so. Okay.

All right. Yeah. I joined to. very fragile. I'm not going to hurt you in any shape or form. This is going to go on gently. Right? Still good? Mm-hmm. Thank you. 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. All right. Do me a fair. Go like this? I do have a lot of medical issues. I'm sorry. Okay. Overall. So Haven and Needrock said that her phone just happened to get run over on the very day that the cops came looking for her. Seems a little coincidental, doesn't it? Havenman Needrock's phone was really important because prosecutors would later say there were more than 25,000 sexually explicit texts between the teacher and the victim. And prosecutors have also said that detectives found videos

of Havenman Needrock and that eighth grade boy having sex and that Havenman Needrock was the one who recorded them. A grand jury later indicted Havenman Needrock on seven counts. including aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault in this second degree, two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, and she's also accused of endangering a child by manufacturing and possessing child pornography. That was one of the allegations. Now, that's a long, long list of charges. Havenman Needrock, she was in a lot of trouble, legally speaking. Yeah. My husband can get it.

Can you let her know? Can you get my antibiotics and my thunders? I'm in the same container. There's just, they're the same pills, though. Oh, the same pills. Like one was just wanting empty, so I just want to, like, see what I'm sorry. My mom had strokes recently. Okay, no problem.

I'm my parents' caretaker. Okay. She's going to come back to the Freehold, please. She's going to her police station in Freehold. Yes. Do you know their numbers? Our parents, anything? Yeah.

Okay. And they have my attorney's number. Okay. Should I keep that with me as well? If you don't, if you don't know by heart? I don't know my attorney's number. Yeah. I would highly recommend for you to get it because that way you have that piece of paper.

We got it. Yeah. It's, if you want my husband to get it, he knows where it is. Yeah. Just tell them what to get. Go ahead, sir. No, no, you can go back. Let's get real.

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That's PDSdeat.com slash crime fix. Again, PDSdeet.com slash crime fix. After the issue of the medication is sorted out, Havenman Needrock asked her husband again to get her attorney's phone number as her mother stood by. Yeah. Allison, where is the red paper? Look at the cabinet where you're. by where you just got the meds, there's two white pieces of paper with red crayon writing.

Look straight ahead. Taped. Now? Nope. Get my oxygen, please. Not that, I know. You're okay? Are you okay?

She's on full-time oxygen. I'm on the long. Okay. Okay. Are you, let her, do you need medical attention? No. You sure? Okay.

Is this it? Yes, that's right. That's my pastor. Okay. Is there anything else that you want to take? Okay. And you know the numbers if you need to call them. My husband, yes.

Okay, excellent. All right, so we're going to get going, okay? Like I said, we're going to process her. We don't make the decision because of bail reform. We all take the Hernandez batch 101, and you guys can, you know. So she's going to freehold. Wait a minute. What?

I didn't need to write down his number. Thank you. She'll call you later, okay? Eric. Yeah, we'll let her make a call her to before, if any, once we know what's happening. Okay. Okay. She's going to get to call the attorney?

She's going to have every right to do what she needs to do. Well, can you answer that question? Sure. I mean, that's what I'm saying. She's going to have every right to, like, call, will allow people to make calls. If she chooses to call her attorney, by all means, she chooses to call you guys.

By all means, it's a very nice and civil process that we're doing with her. But it would be with your phone, and she doesn't have her own phone. There's a phone that we provide at the headquarters for people to make calls. We don't know. She's going to have every ability to make calls and that's as needed. If they decide to put her in the county, then we have to, you know, that will be something that we have to process. The detectives drove Havenman Needrock to the police station back in June of 2024 where she would be processed.

All right. Just step out, please. It's a little tight because the door won't go any further, but just come this way. Thank you. That way. Straight four. And to that right and that door, let me get the warrant. At a hearing in July of 2024, Jersey Shore online reported that a prosecutor said other teachers had seen Haven and 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 and that's how the investigation started. Police then contacted the boy's mother who was also concerned because her daughter, had seen her brother sitting in Havenman-Nedrock's car, and he was on the phone late at night. The victim had also told a friend that he was dating a teacher. Now, the boy denied anything was going on with Havenman-Nedrock and claimed he was dating her daughter, according to the Asbury Park Press, while a prosecutor told the judge that it was clear that Havenman-Nedrock was obsessed with this boy. Now, more than a year and a half after her arrest, Allison Havenman-Nedrock,

She's pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree aggravated sexual assault. Prosecutors will dismiss the other charges. She admitted in court that she had sex with the boy at a hotel in her car and at her home. So let's bring in Sherry Botwin. She is a trauma therapist, also the author of a book entitled Stolen Childhoods Thriving After Abuse. Sherry, thanks for coming back on this case. You know, these teacher cases, there's always a huge ick. factor. Major ick factor here. They're saying 25,000 sexually explicit text messages exchanged between

the teacher and this student. And now we have a guilty plea. Your thoughts, your reaction, first of all, to the guilty plea, to the aggravated sexual assault charge, and then the prosecutor agreeing to dismiss the rest of the charges. Well, I'm imagining the guilty plea comes from, there's a lot of evidence. In a case like that, when there's proof of really inappropriate interactions, I can imagine that her attorneys must have said something to her along the lines of, we can try and fight this, but there's a lot, a lot of evidence here that doesn't look good for you. So it's a terrible story. It's a terrible case, but I'm glad that at least for the victim and his family, they don't have to go to trial because it would be awful.

And it would be awful. The victim, according to the reporting in this case, there's a very thorough recap of the hearing on jersey shortonline.com. The victim apparently is really struggling here. This boy, you know, I say it all the time. time. There's this kind of stereotype out there, this misnomer that, oh, you know, where was she when I was in high school? But this really does have a negative impact on boys, girls too. But when it comes to teenage boys, there's just this ridiculous thing out there, you know, that this doesn't harm them. But it does. So talk to me about that, about how this will have an impact on this

this child for years to come. I mean, these type of cases, I've worked with so many men who were abused as teenagers, and they're in their 50s, 60s and 70s, and they're still battling with symptoms of PTSD. Being a teenage boy and having such a violation of trust by a female teacher, what it does, it's not that different when you're a female, but what it does is it means that this young boy is going to really struggle with trying to figure out, how do I trust women? How am I supposed to trust adults who are females? And it goes into relationships, whether it's relationships with his mom or if he has a doctor that's a female or other teachers. It doesn't surprise me at all that he's struggling. And what I would say to you is, this is a story that made the

news and we're talking about it. But any young boy in that situation, whose abuse in such a horrific way would be struggling. This is what happens. And this is why we need to talk more about these stories. Because when a female, a teacher abuses a teenage boy, the confusion, the betrayal, the self-worth, the body image of that young boy, he's going to be dealing with the aftermath as how I would describe it for years to come. And I would assume feelings of shame come with that, that he may have done something wrong or that he may have brought this on. That's one of the worst parts. When I talk with men who are abused as boys by females, they say that to me all the time.

I should have been able to stop it. Wait, maybe I brought it on somehow. But what if I enjoyed aspects of it? That's part of why it's so confusing because we have to remember teenage boys. they're going through puberty, they're going through all kinds of transitions, they have their hormones, they may find some of their female teachers attractive. But that doesn't mean that in a situation where a teacher abuses a teenage boy like that, that would have nothing to do with the teenager. And I think being a boy and coming forward saying a woman abused him, you know, I hear things like, but she was a woman. I should have been able to fight her off, but that's not how it works when you're a teenager and you're dealing with authority figures, a teacher who's grading you, a teacher that you see every day. You can develop a lot of fond, like, caring feelings for that

woman and then not even understand when the boundaries start to get blurry. It's not like one day a teacher just abuses a boy. There's a whole process of grooming that precedes the actual abuse. Let's talk now about the sexually explicit text messages. There are apparently videos that Alice and Havenman Needrock recorded of the two of them having sex. The prosecutors had said in the past that she recorded these videos. There are text messages. And then the cops go to pick her up and on the body camera, she's like, oh, wait, I don't have my phone. It just happened to get run over by a car today.

How convenient. So, you know, the digital evidence here had to be incredibly overwhelming. The prosecutor had at one point said that this teacher was obsessed with this boy. It's mind-boggling. It's so sickening. And I think, again, the world that we live in, once somebody puts something on their phone, even if she, if her phone got run over, you don't know where all those videos went before her phone allegedly got run over by a car. And I think this is the other thing. thing for this young boy. He has to worry about where are all those videos and what's going to happen if they're in the prosecutor's office and that's part of the evidence. He has to think about, but what if one of them somehow gets out, even if that were to never happen? It's a whole, it's a whole nether layer to the abuse. It's bad enough that she did this allegedly to him, or I should say, she's saying she did this to him. But to put that on video, you know, it makes,

it makes my heartbreak for this boy, and I can only imagine. One of the things I was thinking about when you were talking about that aspect of the story, I've worked with clients who are litigating, and one of the things that they need to do before there's a trial, before there's a plea, sometimes what happens is they're told, we have this evidence, and sometimes they actually will watch if they want, especially if the parent is with them, they will watch that evidence. they'll see the videos and that in and of itself to have to watch yourself be abused like that. And I'm not sure in this case if if this young boy has seen any of the evidence. But imagine being him or his parent.

If he has a parent in the room, there's so many layers of trauma here. It just, it's it's heartbreaking. Yeah, it really is. It's really, really heartbreaking. I don't understand and I still don't understand how a woman or a man, particularly women, though, and this is something I can't wrap my head around being a mom and a woman becomes obsessed with a teenage boy. I am not understanding it. He's a child.

She's a teacher. She's a mom. What is going on there? I mean, what is the mental deficit defect or? what? That's why we need to talk about these stories because I think in the public people don't understand how does an adult act in such horrific ways? I don't know anything about Allison, but there's a lot of reasons why she could become obsessed with a teenager, whether it's she was abused as a child and now she's reenacting or recreating. She may have a sex

addiction. She's a pedophile, right? She has the sick, warped idea. of attraction with young boys. So there's a lot of explanations or reasons why the thing that as the public we have to wrap our head around is, but how does an adult act on those feelings? It's one thing to have those feelings, but how do you do that to a child? One of the things that I'm thinking with Allison is when she's having all this disgusting sexual contact or inappropriate dialogue with him, Is she even in her right mind? Is she in the present? Or is she somehow in her own dissociative state where there's a part of her brain that can't even connect to the idea? You know that right now you're doing something with a child. You know this is a crime. Like there's a part of her and this is what

makes a predator, really. There's a part of her that can't access her consciousness, that can't say to herself, I can't be doing this. So one of the things that will happen is Allison will have to be evaluated to determine if she's a sexually violent predator, however they say it in that particular state, to find out, is this someone that has serial-like predatory defenses that she could continue to act on? Because her sentence is not, what is her sentence? 12 years. So we need to find out before she's let out of prison, is this a woman that could continue to do this? Because if that's the case, her sentence will be determined in terms of what the recommendations are going to be. Yeah, the state is recommending a 12-year sentence. That doesn't necessarily mean that that's what she will get.

I mean, the judge may deviate from that. The defense may, maybe the defense presents some evidence that they think is mitigating. So who knows what could happen there? I mean, the defense is going to probably say, well, she took the plea, right? She's admitting to the crimes. They're going to go after, I would imagine, the least sentence possible. But I hope in this case, and in any case like this, that the judge doesn't just look at the fact that she admitted to her wrongdoings, whether she had no choice or maybe a part of her wanted to get caught. For her and for people like her, being sent to prison as part of the consequence. But this, this, This woman sounds like she's going to need lifelong treatment, intervention, supervision. She will be put on Megan's list, so she will be a sexual predator for the rest of her life. But once you let someone out of prison, you know, you don't know what they're going to do. So I'm hoping that the sentence doesn't just include whatever the number of years, but mandatory. I would hope decades long, therapy, supervision, intervention.

because again, like once somebody goes behind closed doors, nobody has control over what she's doing. She could abuse someone in prison. That's very true. You know, this happened, she's admitting to it all now. This happened between January 2024 and June of 2024. The sexual encounters happened, I guess, at a hotel, happened in other locations. She's admitting to all of this now. It sounds like they had her dead to right.

she couldn't deny any of it. And while he wasn't her direct student, she still had a supervisory role. And that's how she gained access to this student. I mean, she's admitting to all of it. I just taking a kid to a hotel, I mean, having him in her car, I mean, people at school were noticing

that she was in the car with him. They reported this. The school reported this to the police. I think that's a really important part of this as well. That's so important too, because, again, she's in a supervisory role, but how did she get away with that? How did she get away with taking the student to a hotel,

taking the student to her car? Like, was there any red flags? Did somebody miss anything? What we have to remember is predators are very slick and smart in the way that they groom and coerce their victims. So I'm really glad in this case that this boy came forward and that that she got caught. But what we have to think about is when you have adults working with children or teenagers, we have to keep monitoring access. Even in a public school setting,

things happen, right? There's offices, there's bathrooms, there's parking lots, things happen. And the reality is, is that we live in a world where we live among predators. Does that mean every single female teacher is a predator, no. But if even one in one thousand of these women is a predator or has predatory-like behaviors, we as a society need to be paying attention. You know, they say, if you see something, say something, we need to really reinforce that message, not just at home, but in schools or any setting where you're dealing with children and teenagers. Yeah, most definitely. There is zero reason for a kid to be in a car for an extended period of time with a teacher. Right. I mean, if mom and dad, no teacher maybe like is giving the kid a ride home or something, fine. But, you know, there would be, I think I can say I would never let my child be riding around in a car with his teacher. I can just tell you that right?

right now. As a parent, right? Because of what I do. But I literally cannot even remember a time ever being, I think maybe once in my school career, even as a student back in the day, I don't remember ever, maybe once getting a ride home from a teacher, maybe once ever. I mean, I know where I live at this point. Teachers, coaches, they are not allowed to drive students. It is, it is forbidden. And again, when I was growing up, I got rides home with teachers at times. We live in a society now where we really need to be awake. We need to be paying attention. The other thing is all those text messages between him and his teacher. We also need to be aware of the fact that our teenagers have phones. And while we don't want to be hovering over our children, we have to be

paying attention, right? One of the questions that I have to be having. have is when all these interactions are happening over that over that six month period of time was he displaying this young boy was he displaying any behaviors or any type of change in his mood that maybe could have alerted someone whether it was another teacher his family like what was happening for him during those six months was he thinking this is a great thing was he thinking this is a great thing and it's a horrible thing all at the same time was he feeling embarrassed that there's so So many questions that I have that runs through my mind. And usually in cases like this, what happens is once in this case, she got caught, she admits to the crime, right? Then we hear

about how this poor boy, he is struggling. He is having PTSD. He's having depression. He's probably having a number of issues. A lot of times what happens is that after the crime ends, after the perpetrator gets caught or after the abuse ends, that's when survivors really start to unravel because then they realize, oh my gosh, this person just abused me. So in a case like this, one of the messages, one of the lessons is that if you notice that something is weird or you're getting a weird feeling about your kid or you're getting a weird feeling about your kid and his interactions with his teacher,

don't ignore that. Listen to what your intuition is telling you because something might be happening. Something may be happening. Sherry Botwin, thank you so much. Trust your gut when it comes to your kids and boundaries are important. Teachers should not be spending a lot of time outside of school or if any time outside of school with kids. Thank you again, Sherry.

Thanks so much. Thank you. Allison Havenman-Ned-Nedrock will be sentenced in May. Prosecutors will ask for a 12-year sentence. and they will ask that she be supervised for life by probation and parole, and they want her to register as a sex offender under Megan's Law. We'll see what happens and keep it covered for you. And that's it for this episode of Crime Fix.

I'm Ann Jeanette Levy. Thanks so much for being with me. I'll see you back here next time.