Teacher pleads to sexual conduct with minor

A former kindergarten teacher who taught for more than six months despite facing charges for child sex crimes pleaded guilty this week to two counts of sexual conduct with a minor.

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Angela Csader, 25, of Queen Creek, accepted the charges on Tuesday and will be sentenced on April 28.

Csader resigned from her job at Anthem Elementary in Florence on Jan. 31 because of accusations of having sex with a 16-year-old Gilbert boy multiple times in 2006.

She was hired by the boy’s parents as an in-home special-education therapist for their 8-year-old autistic son.

Both charges carry a maximum sentence of 1.5 years in prison. She would also be required to register as a sex offender.

Csader and the teen first had sex in August 2006 while she was house-sitting for the family, and they had sex at least two more times during the next month, records show. The boy also fathered her child.

She told officers that she once drove to Gilbert High School on the boy’s lunch break to have sex in her truck.

Police learned of the situation more than a year before her resignation, and she admitted to the relationship with the boy to officers in May.

However, Csader wasn’t officially arrested and booked until Dec. 18.

Detectives had spent a year gathering evidence and conducting interviews. But the boy and his parents did not wish to press charges, a decision that delayed the arrest and booking process, officials said.

State law requires Arizona teachers to get a fingerprint clearance cards issued by the Department of Public Safety, which enters the information into a database. So if a teacher is arrested and booked, her status as a teacher would pop up in a check. DPS then notifies the Department of Education, who in turn notifies the school.

But Csader’s case entered the courts through a process where she wasn’t first physically arrested.

Instead, her case was forwarded to prosecutors, who didn’t decide to charge Csader until October.

She appeared before the court in December, and DPS didn’t suspend her fingerprint card until Jan. 8 or send notification to the Department of Education until Jan. 14.

Chandler Rep. Bob Robson, R, proposed a state law last month to close those gaps in the state’s notification system.

The House of Representatives unanimously passed HB2042, now moving through the Senate.

The bill requires the Department of Public Safety to regularly provide each school district with a list of fingerprint card holders who have been arrested or convicted.

It also would make educators who don’t immediately report their arrests to their schools guilty of unprofessional conduct, a punishment that calls for dismissal and exclusion from future employment in other school districts.