Long Island Teacher's Aide Caught with Boy

(Greenport, New York) A 39-year-old married mother-of-three and teacher's aide at Greenport Elementary School, Maria Commins, was arrested a week ago after allegedly being caught naked in a hotel room with a 15-year-old boy.

Commins told police that she and the boy are in love.

Police were tipped to her location by a private investigator hired by Maria's husband.

In her statement to Det. Robert Boden, Commins recounted buying beer from a Greenport supermarket Friday, visiting her gynecologist for birth control pills and stopping by a CVS in Wading River, where she bought the condom the teen used during sex.

Around 11 a.m., she picked up the 15-year-old - a friend of her son's - from his house in her Ford Taurus station wagon.

They went first to Friendly's in Riverhead to eat, and then on to the Holiday Inn, where Commins said she paid cash for room No. 205.

"We went inside the room and we both had a beer," Commins said, according to her statement. She said they then had sexual intercourse. Later, they heard a knock at the door from police officers.

"I asked the policeman to wait a minute so we could get dressed," Commins told the detective, her statement says.

Commins was booked and released on $500 bail.