Mass. Teacher Lisa Lavoie Ran Away With 15 Year-Old Student, Found In West Virginia (VIDEO)

Posted on February 24, 2009

lavoie Mass. Teacher Lisa Lavoie Ran Away With 15 Year-Old Student, Found In West Virginia (VIDEO)

Lisa Lavoie, a teacher from Holyoke, Massachusetts, will be facing charges of child endangerment after running away a 15-year-old student. Police also believe Lavoie committed statutory rape. Read more on this crazy case below.

Police found Lisa Lavoie, 24, with the 15 year-old boy in a hotel room in Morgantown, West Virginia this week, local media news have reported.  The boy had been missing for a week. Investigators used spending records to track them down.

The boy’s mother had contacted the school several days before her child disappeared. The mother told the school that she was worried her son was involved in some sort of affair with Lavoie.

Authorities had been tracking the teacher and boy for several days through credit card and cell phone use, Sullivan said. On Monday night, state police were informed she was at the Super 8 Motel in a Morgantown shopping center just off Interstate 68.

A motel manager declined comment, but Goodnight said the staff had been in contact with Massachusetts authorities before his team arrived Tuesday morning. After confirming a vehicle in the parking lot belonged to Lavoie, troopers got a passkey and went to her room.

The door was deadbolted, and officers tried to kick it in before Lavoie and the boy opened it, Goodnight said. Lavoie surrendered quietly.

Goodnight would not reveal where the boy had been taken but said arrangements are being made to send him home. The eighth-grader will be interviewed by child welfare officials, then reunited with his family. The teen showed “no outward signs of physical abuse” when he was found, Sullivan said.

“Her family and I are happy that she is safe and we’ll see what develops over the next couple of days,” said David Hoose, her Massachusetts attorney, before declining to comment further.

Sullivan said the city will review teacher training and student awareness programs. The Donahue principal has met with 7th and 8th grade students to advise them of counseling opportunities available, and some students are worried about their friend.

“We have to make sure students understand improper behavior and improper advances and we’re going to make some changes in our professional development,” he said.

Lisa Lavoie taught 8th grade and had only been at the Holyoke school for five months. Lavoie is now on administrative leave and will have her Massachusetts teaching license permanently revoked if found guilty.

Check out the Lisa Lavoie video detailing the case below:

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Comments

  1. Jeff on

    Hot damn, I am living in Morgantown WV. Thats like 5 minutes away haha.

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  2. Monya on

    Superman could have citizen’s arrested that beeyatch!

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  3. gerard Vandenberg on

    “RUNNING FASTER” was no option, folks?

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  4. Brian on

    WTF is this “Goodnight” person that is referenced several times in the article???? Very confusing…

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