MORE teachers having sex with students
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 9:41 am
But now we're getting somewhere. Move over, Debbie Lafave!
(Seriously, how do these stupid people continue to do this knowing the consequences?)
HOLLIS — Oklahoma investigators already were looking into allegations that teacher Jennifer Sexton was having sex with one of her students when she resigned from Hollis Middle School in April.
On June 18 — 650 miles away in Olive Branch, Miss. — the 28-year-old English teacher was arrested on suspicion of statutory rape and contributing to the delinquency of a minor after police found her and the student, a 15-year-old boy, in a Best Western hotel room. The boy was on summer break visiting his mother when he hopped the fence of a church parking lot, where Sexton waited in her sport utility vehicle.
Sexton’s Mississippi arrest led Oklahoma prosecutors to re-evaluate the earlier allegations. On Thursday, Sexton was charged in Harmon County District Court with three counts of second-degree rape, two counts of enticing a child, and one count of forcible sodomy. On Friday morning, she turned herself in at the Harmon County jail and was released later in the day after posting $100,000 bail.
Before the Mississippi arrest, the only evidence Harmon County Assistant District Attorney Eric Yarborough said he had against Sexton was people’s suspicions.
“Things that raised kind of an eyebrow. People seeing a teacher alone with a child may or may not be anything. It could just be innocent contact,” Yarborough said. “The child said nothing’s going on, she’s just a nice teacher.”
After Mississippi, the case changed. The boy, whose identity is being withheld because he is a victim of sexual abuse, spoke to investigators with consent from a parent, court records show.
The student described how, three days before she quit her teaching job, Sexton had sex with him in the back of her classroom. In the weeks that followed, Sexton picked up the student numerous times in her SUV and drove to a secluded area. They had sex in her car, her house and the home of his father — a pastor.
During the same time period, Sexton filed for divorce from her husband. On May 13, a Harmon County judge granted the divorce and a name change. As of June 1, Sexton’s name was restored to Jennifer Caswell, her maiden name.
The Oklahoman could not locate a working phone number for Caswell. Her attorney could not be reached for comment Friday.
(Seriously, how do these stupid people continue to do this knowing the consequences?)
HOLLIS — Oklahoma investigators already were looking into allegations that teacher Jennifer Sexton was having sex with one of her students when she resigned from Hollis Middle School in April.
On June 18 — 650 miles away in Olive Branch, Miss. — the 28-year-old English teacher was arrested on suspicion of statutory rape and contributing to the delinquency of a minor after police found her and the student, a 15-year-old boy, in a Best Western hotel room. The boy was on summer break visiting his mother when he hopped the fence of a church parking lot, where Sexton waited in her sport utility vehicle.
Sexton’s Mississippi arrest led Oklahoma prosecutors to re-evaluate the earlier allegations. On Thursday, Sexton was charged in Harmon County District Court with three counts of second-degree rape, two counts of enticing a child, and one count of forcible sodomy. On Friday morning, she turned herself in at the Harmon County jail and was released later in the day after posting $100,000 bail.
Before the Mississippi arrest, the only evidence Harmon County Assistant District Attorney Eric Yarborough said he had against Sexton was people’s suspicions.
“Things that raised kind of an eyebrow. People seeing a teacher alone with a child may or may not be anything. It could just be innocent contact,” Yarborough said. “The child said nothing’s going on, she’s just a nice teacher.”
After Mississippi, the case changed. The boy, whose identity is being withheld because he is a victim of sexual abuse, spoke to investigators with consent from a parent, court records show.
The student described how, three days before she quit her teaching job, Sexton had sex with him in the back of her classroom. In the weeks that followed, Sexton picked up the student numerous times in her SUV and drove to a secluded area. They had sex in her car, her house and the home of his father — a pastor.
During the same time period, Sexton filed for divorce from her husband. On May 13, a Harmon County judge granted the divorce and a name change. As of June 1, Sexton’s name was restored to Jennifer Caswell, her maiden name.
The Oklahoman could not locate a working phone number for Caswell. Her attorney could not be reached for comment Friday.