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A 24-year-old elementary school teacher is accused of sexually assaulting one of her 11-year-old male students and told police that she wanted to make the boy 'happy.'
Katherine Gonzalez was arrested and charged with one count of first degree sexual assault of a child under the age of 13 on Sunday in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Prosecutors said the fifth grade teacher at Atlas Preparatory Academy, a Choice school, had been messaging one of her male students on SnapChat, WISN reported.
According to the criminal complaint, Gonzalez had contact with the student in her car and at her home.
The two touched each other's 'private parts through their clothing,' prosecutors said.
The teacher allegedly told the student not to tell anyone about their relationship because she could lose her job and go to jail.
Gonzalez told authorities that the victim is 'chronically depressed' and admitted to saying things to make the 11-year-old boy happy.