A 55-year-old Paramus Catholic High School teacher was arrested Friday for allegedly showing a teenage girl photos of naked women while he worked with her as a private tutor, authorities said.
Mark Sorenson, of Clifton, was arrested by detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office and Paramus Police Department for showing the photos to the girl in her Paramus home. The girl is not a Paramus Catholic student and the alleged crime did not take place at the school, according to the prosecutor's office.
Sorenson has been suspended from his teaching job and school officials will cooperate with investigators, Newark Archdiocese spokesman Jim Goodness said.
"School administration today has been working to notify parents, faculty and staff about the incident," he said.
Goodness said the Archdiocese was awaiting more information from prosecutors and could not offer more information because of the ongoing investigation.
Judge Donald Venezia set bail at $25,000.00 and ordered Sorenson not to have any contact with the girl. Sorenson is a math teacher at the school, according to the Paramus Catholic faculty directory.
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This is happening all over the country. Go to www.schoolteachernews.com and click on the Scandal page. This year they have documented over 375 of these types of incidents. In 2008 they found 478 of these kinds of cases.
this is all lies
Hey is this all lies?
I hope so he seemed like such a cool teacher...
why do you say it's all lies?
It IS all lies, he's a great teacher. There's no way that this is the whole story. The media exaggerates everything.
This should be no reflection on Paramus Catholic.
Tell the whole story
honeslty how woud this be all mad up if he ADMITED to eevrything soo if yu want to be like that poor girl honeslty jus think bout wt she went through and probably more mentallly and emotionally and yu DO NOT no the rest of what happend since she is a minor so since you were NOT there yu have NO right to commment what so ever
too bad it turned out to be a lie lol ^
oh really so why did he admit to it all ? huh ur stupid
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