SICKENING sexual abuse has landed a special needs teacher in prison after she sexually coerced a vulnerable teenage student.
Sandy Carazas-Pines, 36, will spend 25 years behind bars after she spent three months persuading a vulnerable child into a sexual relationship with her.
The former New York City public school teacher led her 16-year-old student from the city-funded Yonkers school to believe they were in a romantic relationship over the period between November 2022 to February 2023.
The married mother-of-three called, texted and video-chatted with the boy to arrange her sick sexual encounters with him.
She even forced him to live-stream "sexually explicit conduct" while on video calls with her, prosecutors told a court .
In messages between the pair discussing a potential bre