Ex-CBA teacher faces rape charges

By BRENDAN LYONS, Staff writer

First published: Saturday, July 30, 2005 COLONIE -- A former English teacher at Christian Brothers Academy is scheduled to surrender to police on Monday to face felony rape charges in connection with two incidents involving a former student.

The teacher, 42-year-old Sandra "Beth" Geisel, was fired from her job at the private all-boys school last month after police in Cohoes allegedly found her in a parked car with another one of her students, who was 17.

Geisel, formerly of Long Shadow Drive, Latham, became the focus of a police investigation after that June 11 incident in Cohoes. A police officer who responded to a call for a parked car left running and with its lights on said he found Geisel and the boy in the back seat of the car in the town's hillside neighborhood. The boy, who has not been identified, and Geisel both allegedly lied to the officer about their ages, according to a copy of the police report.--