Sex charges for school aide -- Unified teaching assistant alleged to have had relations with teen... Sex charges for school aid

RACINE - A Racine Unified School District teacher's aide has been criminally charged for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a male student for two years.

Lisa Myhre, 33, of Racine, is charged with repeated sexual assault of the same child and sexual assault of a student by an instructional staff member, according to the criminal complaint filed at the Law Enforcement Center Monday afternoon.

The sexual contact allegedly began when the student was 14 years old and in the eighth grade at McKinley Middle School. The relationship ended in or just before January 2005, according to the complaint.

Myhre, also known as Lisa Street, allegedly performed oral sex on the boy, kissed him, and masturbated him throughout the course of the relationship, but did not engage in sexual intercourse with him.

Myhre works at Knapp Elementary School as a special education assistant working with special education students, said Linda Flashinski, director of communications for Unified.

If convicted on all charges, Myhre faces a possible 66 years in prison and up to $10,000 fine. An online search of Wisconsin court records show Myhre has no criminal background in Wisconsin.

"She told me she had to get to know who this kid was that didn't smile. She looked at his grades and saw they weren't great and asked him if he needed help," the boy's mother said.

The first time Myhre had inappropriate contact with the victim was when they were in a classroom in McKinley and she kissed him, the complaint says.

The boy was 14 at the time. The sexual abuse continued into the boy's time at Park High School, to which Myhre was transferred in October 2004. Myhre had requested the transfer, Unified officials say.

Myhre and the boy's mother became close friends over the years and the boy's mother trusted her completely, the boy's mother said. She said she was blindsided by Myhre's kindness. "We were like sisters," the mother said tearfully. "She figured out how to manipulate me. I still can't believe she did it."

The boy's mom said she often relied on Myhre to check in on her son when she had to spend the night at a Milwaukee hospital where her other son, who is handicapped, received treatment. "I was so sure she was genuine person. She set me up for that," the boy's mother said.

On one occasion, Myhre asked the boy if he wanted to have sexual intercourse. When he declined because he did not have a condom, Myhre allegedly told him it was OK, that he didn't need one, the complaint says.

When the dating relationship between Myhre's daughter and the boy ended in January, Myhre stopped having her sexual relationship with him, the boy's mother said.

"Until there is due process, there is no basis for termination," Flashinski said. "We have to establish just cause, meaning that misconduct must be proven."

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