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A Math teacher who taught gifted middle school students in Brooklyn was arrested on Wednesday and charged with sexually abusing a boy at the Brooklyn middle school where he worked.   Andre Braddy, 34, was arrested at Lenox Academy – a magnet school for talented middle schoolers – in Canarsie, Brooklyn. It is alleged that the Math teacher had sex with a 15-year-old boy inside the school’s bathroom. This went on for at least a month. He allegedly had sex with the teen three times and sent him lewd pictures.   The boy reportedly told one of his parents about the encounters with the teacher, and the police were called, leading to Braddy’s arrest last Wednesday evening. In a statement, Douglas Cohen, a spokesman for the city Department of Education, said: “These deeply disturbing allegations have no place in our schools.” Braddy has been suspended with pay and will not be allowed contact with students if he is released on bail. Douglas Cohen adde...

ENACT LAW TO REGULATE EASTER ACTIVITIES: CHIEF TELLS GOVT A sub chief of Weija Ashankpokoashie, Nii Dzanor Kwei has told government to enact law that will regulate Easter activities . Nii Dzanor Kwei lamented that the way social vices are the order of the day during Easter festivity, it is important for the government to come out a law that will provide checks and balances in the celebration of the Easter Citing areas which these social vices are on the rise during Easter, he said, Kwahu in the Eastern region is gradually becoming a hub of immoral activities such as prostitution and alcoholism. Nii Dzanor Kwei further suggested that the government should collaborate with the traditional leaders, Pastors and Opinion leaders in the various communities especially where Easter festive is highly celebrated to ensure that it is celebrate with decency. He was of the view that Easter is loosing its relevance because the celebration is no more to remember the death and resurrection of Jesu...