A twisted fourth-grade teacher brazenly molested five little girls at his desk while fellow students sat feet away inside his Queens classroom, sources said.
"Don't tell anybody," accused serial pervert Simon Watts reportedly told one of his victims after pinching her rear end and groping her thigh inside Public School 15.
The hulking Watts, 38, forced three other girls to grab his genitals in the classroom, a criminal complaint says. It adds that he fondled a fifth victim and unzipped his pants as she stood there.
The repeated assaults came with creepy chatter, with Watts telling one scared child, "I love you," and another, "I can see your butt," authorities said.
The abuse began after he arrived at the Springfield Gardens school in 2007 and continued until March 9, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.
Two of the girls, all ages 8 to 10, were abused repeatedly as Watts was moved with them from the third grade to the fourth grade last September, a law enforcement source said.
Police busted him after the most recent victim told her mother Watts steered her hand to his crotch at a classroom desk, the source said.
Watts, 5-feet-10 and 230 pounds, was being held on $200,000 bail. He faces up to seven years if convicted.
"Children should be allowed to be children," Brown said. "Such alleged conduct cannot go unpunished."
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