Ex-Forest Hills teacher guilty
A former Forest Hills middle school math teacher who last year pleaded guilty to engaging in sexually explicit conversations with his students pleaded guilty Tuesday to violating the terms of his probation in that case.
The defendant is Bradley Dieffenbacher, 32, of Levittown, L.I. Dieffenbacher, a math teacher, was formerly employed at M.S. 190. He appeared before Queens Supreme Court Justice Douglas Wong and pleaded guilty to violating the terms of his probation. Specifically, the defendant admitted he failed to obey his probation officer’s direction not to have contact with anyone under age 18 by tutoring a 15-year-old boy in math between December 2008 and March 2009.
The judge sentenced the defendant to a minimum of two years and a maximum of six years in prison.
As part of his original plea Dieffenbacher surrendered his New York State teaching license and was required to register as a sex offender when he was sentenced last June to six months in jail and four and one-half years’ probation.
He had pleaded guilty to attempted use of a child in a sexual performance, admitting that between April 1, 2007, and Feb. 20, 2008, he sent sexually explicit instant messages over the Internet to eight adolescent boys who had been or were presently students in his junior high school math class.
©Queens Chronicle 2009
