Gagne Gone Awry

Gagne's granddaughter charged with sex crime
A former Cretin-Derham Hall employee is accused of having had sex with a 16-year-old male student.
By ROCHELLE OLSON and PAT PHEIFER, Star Tribune Staff Writers

A 25-year-old former weight room supervisor and teacher at Cretin-Derham Hall in St. Paul faces two counts of third-degree criminal-sexual conduct for alleged incidents with a 16-year-old student in 2008.

The complaint alleges that Gagne, the granddaughter of former professional wrestler Verne Gagne and the daughter of former professional wrestler Greg Gagne, engaged in sexual conduct on several occasions with the male student, who worked under her supervision in the weight room. He is not identified in the complaint.

The alleged victim said Gagne took him to her Bloomington home and had oral sex with him.

Later, she took him to a hotel near the Mall of America, where the two spent the night and had sex, the complaint said.

Hotel records and Gagne's credit card receipts show that on Sept. 13-14 of that year, she spent the night at LaQuinta Hotel on Nicollet Avenue south in Bloomington, the complaint said.

I usually don't involve myself in the female teacher molests student stories but when it deals with the granddaughter of a wrestling legend I feel like I have to weigh in. Verne Gange was of course the father or the AWA or American Wrestling Association, which kind of united the fractured wrestling circuits around the world. He also gave Hulk Hogan his start. Now it seems like his granddaughter is giving a 16-year-old a jump. I just don't see what an adult woman could see in a 16-year-old. I'm not mature now so just imagine how bad I was at 16. And its not like she couldn't do better. She's no prize but after a bucket of beer I'd let her take me to the Mall of America Hotel.

This of course is the second blow to Gange family in recent months as Verne killed an old man in a nursing home earlier this year. I'll let these insensitive radio hosts fill you in.