As the FBI continues to investigate PS 243 Teacher's Aide Taleek Brooks, 41, in regards to charges of both having and producing child pornography, Mayor Bloomberg has responded to the disturbing story with surprising nonchalance considering his normally outspoken views on education.
"The school system’s something like 125,000 people, and I don’t think it’s practical to think there isn’t going to be somebody doing despicable things," the mayor said yesterday. "There are some sick people in the world, and you just have to learn to deal with them." Noted!
Meanwhile, more information about the amount of time Brooks, a divorced father of one, was able to spend unsupervised with children from 243 has come to light. Apparently Brooks, who ran an all-boys dance troupe called Freestylers at the school, would take his boys on weekend trips to his mom's house in Pennsylvania as well as on camping trips and to the movies once a month. If anything untoward actually happened on those trips, however, remains unknown for now.
