Bronx teacher arrested after raping 10-year-old student

Bronx teacher arrested after raping 10-year-old student, deceiving parents

Anthony Criscuolo, who taught fifth grade at P.S. 386, wrote a note on

school letterhead to the victim's parents, telling them their daughter

had won an essay-writing contest with an accompanying award ceremony

that he would take her to. Instead, he drove the girl to a school

parking lot in Queens and assaulted her in his vehicle, police sources

said.



Teacher Anthony Criscuolo of P.S. 386 in the Bronx was collared

Wednesday after being accused in the rape of a fifth-grader he

showered with gifts, including an iPod Touch.

A scheming Bronx teacher raped a 10-year-old student after he tricked

the girl's family into thinking she was receiving an academic award,

police sources said Wednesday.



"He needs to die," the girl's devastated grandmother told the Daily News.



Twisted Public School 386 teacher Anthony Criscuolo — the hulking

brute accused of the sickening attack on his fifth-grade student —

penned a bogus note to the victim's parents on school letterhead

announcing that their daughter had written an award-winning persuasive

essay, police sources said.

The victim's grandmother didn't hold anything back, saying Anthony

Criscuolo 'needs to die.'



The letter convinced the unsuspecting parents to allow the 40-year-old

predator, who had already given the girl an iPod Touch and let her

wear a diamond ring in his classroom, to take the girl to a sham award

ceremony he claimed was Monday.



But there were no awards, no ceremony, no pomp and no circumstance.

Instead, the pathetic creep drove the victim to a school parking lot

in Queens and raped her inside his silver Dodge Charger, which has

tinted windows that hid the beastly attack, police sources said.



The girl's mother called cops Tuesday after she found a string of

sexually illicit emails sent by Criscuolo, family said. One missive

even said the perv had left his wife to be with the child.