vTeacher 'had sex with girl, 14, at his home when lawyer wife and baby daughter were out and hid eight-month affair with cell phone codes'
A married teacher appeared in court yesterday accused of repeatedly having sex with a 14-year-old former student.
Sixth-grade English teacher Daniel Reilly, 36, used cellphone code names to keep the affair between him and his former student a secret from his wife and her family, Queens prosecutors said.
Ex-Marine Reilly is accused of having sex at least 10 times with the girl in his apartment in Forest Hills, New York, when his wife and their new baby daughter were out.
English teacher Daniel Reilly, 36, is alleged to have had an eight-month affair with a 14-year-old former pupil
Yesterday he was arraigned and released on $30,000 bail paid by his lawyer wife Annemarie, who attended the court and listen to the charges with her mother.
If convicted, he faces seven years in prison.
Court documents suggested that their most recent tryst took just days before Reilly was arrested at Intermediate School 237 in Flushing after his alleged victim's mother alerted the school.
The prosecutor told Queens Criminal Court that the alleged relationship began last year after he pursued the girl, who originally just wanted to be friends with him.
He is alleged to have begun texting her last August before inviting her to his apartment when his wife and 11-month-old daughter were out.
Reilly, who faces statutory rape charges, is said to have given the girl a code-name to use so that her parents would not discover the affair, while he used another code for her so his wife Annemarie would remain in the dark.
Intermediate School 237 in Flushing, New York,where Daniel Reilly was a sixth-grade English teacher
The prosecutor said: 'The defendant planned on keeping the affair secret', according to a report in the New York Daily News.
It said the relationship was only discovered when the victim's sister discovered texts from Reilly on her sister's cellphone.
She told her parents, who alerted IS237, where the girl is no longer a student, and they hauled him out of class while they rang police.
The $61,000-a-year teacher, who served as a sergeant in the Marines between 1996-2000, is said to have no history of disciplinary problems since he began working as a teacher in 2007.
Queens DA Richard Brown told the New York Post: 'This case is particularly disturbing. Schools should be safe havens for children.
'Instead, this defendant is accused of sexually preying upon one of his former students and rendezvousing with her at his residence.'
Schools chancellor Dennis Walcott said: 'As I've said before, this is totally unacceptable. We have no tolerance for that.
'Keep your hands off our students.'
Reilly is said to have been honorably discharged from the Marines in 2000, and is a popular teacher at the school where he has taught for six years.
He is charged with second-degree rape, criminal sexual acts, and endangering the welfare of a child, and is due back in court on May 6. A victim order has been issued on behalf of the teen.