Sitemap

Member-only story

Abby Faust And Madison Bergmann: Groomers And Friends?

Here’s a weird one out of the Wisconsin and Minnesota area.

3 min readSep 10, 2025

--

Press enter or click to view image in full size

There is definitely some kind of rise in groomers, and I’ve covered a few of those cases, including ideas of “marital neglect,” but this one I have here is wild-ish.

You have two young women. Their names are Abby Faust and Madison Bergmann. They were both fifth-grade teachers at Rivercrest Elementary, which is in Hudson, Wisconsin. Since they were likely part of the “fifth grade team” or “fifth grade pod” (I was once a teacher and know the terms), they were friends outside of school.

Madison got in legal trouble first for a relationship with a student. And then Abby got brought in as a witness/someone for authorities to talk to, and she said she knew nothing. But other teachers — gossips! — said they were friends, and so the cops dug a little deeper, and it turns out that Madison (now in trouble) and Abby (yet to be in trouble) actually texted each other about grooming young boys.

Some of the story is here, and we’ll get to a video in a second.

So now the cops are looking at Abby, and apparently she was working as a nanny for a family at the school. She started sexting the son of that family, and eventually that worked up to having sex, including she…

--

--

Ted Bauer
Ted Bauer

Written by Ted Bauer

True Crime | Human Behavior | Friendship | Sexuality | Just generally trying to figure out who we are and why we're that way