Feb. 16, 2026

Bad Teachers: Missouri

Bad Teachers: Missouri
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Jim brings you the stories of (4) Bad Teachers from the State of Ohio that were arrested and convicted of having inappropriate relationships with students. 
Amanda Schweitzer: Joplin, Missouri
Janae Nunnelly: Mexico, Missouri
Jennifer Cecil: Jefferson City, Missouri
Carissa Jane Smith: Dixon, Missouri

Timestamps
02:56 Amanda Schweitzer's Case
08:58 Janae Nunnelly Arrest
18:43 Jennifer Cecil Arrest
23:35 Carissa Jane Smith's Arrest
28:43 Grading Missouri's Consequences

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Hey everyone, and welcome back to Exposed Scandalous Files of

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the Elite. I'm your host, Jim Chapman, and today I

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am bringing you another episode in the Bad Teachers state

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specific series. So far, I have brought you to Arkansas, Texas, Ohio,

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and today I'm bringing you to the state of Missouri

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and we're going to expose just a few of the

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bad teachers from that state caught in inappropriate relationships with students.

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And I'm going to start this one off in Joplin, Missouri, which,

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even if you have never been to Missouri, you have

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likely heard of Joplin. It was the site of a

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horrific tragedy on May twenty second of twenty eleven, when

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an e F five tornado hit the city, essentially destroying

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it some eight thousand buildings, with over four thousand of

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those being people's homes completely destroyed. One hundred and fifty

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eight people lost their lives in that disaster. So let's

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go to twenty seventeen, just six years after that disaster,

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and I'm going to tell you about a forty two

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year old former teacher by the name of Amanda Ruth

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Schweitzer who was arrested when a mother of three boys

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in Joplin reported that Amanda had sent nude photos to

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her son on Instagram. This would open up an investigation

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that would uncover other illegal acts at the hands of

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this bad teacher. Get into it and Amanda Schweitzer. She

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started her teaching career in August of twenty ten in

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the Joplin School District as an eighth grade reading teacher.

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This was at North Middle School, and she continued in

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that role throughout the subsequent years, even through the devastation

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of the Joplin Tornado. So in October of twenty fifteen,

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she gets married and she continues teaching at North Middle School. Now,

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at this point, everything seemed fine. She's lifing right, she's

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getting married, she's got a job that is considered somewhat professional.

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But in March of twenty seventeen, that would all change

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when a mom reports to school officials that Amanda was

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sending newt photos to multiple students at that school. This,

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of course would launch an investigator, and through that investigation

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of thirteen year old boy thirteen would come forward with

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some pretty damning evidence of not only this abuse, but

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also that he had sex at Amana's house on at

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least two occasions. So on April seventh of twenty seventeen,

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Schweitzer she gets arrested on a charge of first degree

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statutory rape of that thirteen year old student. Now, at

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this point in time, she is thirty seven years old,

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so the arrest weren't stemmed from the thirteen year old

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saying he had been driven to her house where clothing

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was removed and the two had sex. And at this

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time police were also still looking into those Instagram needs

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that reportedly allegedly she had sent to other multiple students,

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but that was not what she was being arrested for.

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Here she gets arraigned on that charge, she pleads not guilty.

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Of course, you have nothing to lose in an arragnment

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by pleading not guilty. She pays her bond and she

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gets released, and it's nearly another year before anything else

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occurs in this case, when on January of twenty eighteen,

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a federal grand jury indicts her on separate charges involving

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those Instagram nudes. So now you got the federal the

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Feds investigating you again. She pleads not guilty, and throughout

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the next year there's a little to no movement on

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this case on the criminal side. Now on the civil side,

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several lawsuits surface. Now, one in particular is from safe

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Co Insurance of all People, and they enter into a

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lawsuit against Amanda and her husband. Now I'm assuming this

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is on behalf of the victim in this case. And

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one thing it does do is it provides at least

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a little bit of detail. I'm not going to review

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this entire lawsuit, but just one instance listed in the

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lawsuit and it reads and we're going to refer to

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the minor child as victim. Victim who through his mother,

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has a pending civil suit for damages in state court

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against his middle school teacher, Amanda Schweitzer and Amanda's husband,

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Jonah Schweitzer. Victim civil action stems from the allegation that

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Amanda groomed and subsequently engaged in sexual intercourse with victim.

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Amanda has been charged with crimes for her lleged misconduct.

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Amanda and Jonah are insured under safe Co Homeowner's insurance policy.

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After Owen's and victim made a demand of Safeco for

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payment of the policy, SAFEC brought this declaratory judgment action

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naming defendants Amanda Jonah, and it named some other people

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in emotion for judgment basically says victim was a student

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at North Middle School during twenty sixteen seventeen school year.

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During that same year, Amanda was an adult female teacher

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employed by the Joplin School District at North Middle School,

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where she served as a teacher to the victim. In

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early twenty seventeen, Amanda began grooming victim via social media

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and text message in violation of policies on her About

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March twenty ninth, twenty seventeen, victim was late for the

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bus and subsequently missed school. Amanda message victim when she

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noticed he was not at school. Amanda subsequently drove to

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his home and picked him up without the consent of

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his mother. Could you imagine that if you're a mother

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right now? While at her home, Amanda engaged in sexual

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intercourse with a victim. As a result of the encounter,

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victim has a sustained emotional injuries and yo, this is

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a middle school student. In addition, victim was to finish

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the semester off campus after the encounter with a man

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that came to light, he subsequently transferred schools. And that's

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pretty much what that lawsuit goes into now, as I said,

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her husband was named in that because it basically said, well, heck,

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I'll read it for you. It says that the petition

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alleges Jenna knew or should have known the proclivities of

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his wife to groom young male students and pray on

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them for sex. I don't know what that's all about.

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I read into it. I can't find anything where he

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was aware or appeared that somebody thought he was aware

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of all this stuff. So if you know something about that,

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let me know. But there you have it, that gives

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you a little more details, at least into that victim.

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So it's not until June of twenty twenty when there

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is what I would consider some major movement in this case,

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when Amanda Schweitzer, who is at this time forty one

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years old, she takes a plea and pleads guilty to

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one count of inciting a minor for illegal sexual activity.

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Now note the timing here, June of twenty twenty. COVID

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was probably at its peak at this time, so it

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took a while, actually a year and a half before

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she's going to be sentenced. But she is indeed sentenced

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in November of twenty twenty one, and I'm happy for

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the first time in a long time since I've been

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covering these cases to say the sentence might actually fit.

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She is sentenced to twenty years in prison with no

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parole in fifteen years probation upon a release. So it's

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a good start for Missouri. Now, did the THDS play

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a role in all of that, I'm sure they did.

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But hey, that is a sentence that fits the crime

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in my view. So let's see if it's going to

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continue here as we go to Mexico, Missouri. And yes,

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the name of the town is Mexico. And I'm going

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to tell you about another bad teacher by the name

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of Janay Nunnely. And I want to shout out listener

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Jessica for putting me on this particular teacher's trail. Now,

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Janey was twenty six years old and an elementary school

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teacher when she was arrested in February of twenty twenty five,

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just last year for having a merely year long sexual

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relationship with a student, and subsequent to that, it would

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also come out she was having sexual relationships with multiple students. Now,

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I do need to mention that although she was an

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elementary school teacher. The students she was having sex with

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were all high school students, So a little bit about Janay.

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In September of twenty twenty, she starts working with the Mexico,

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Missouri Public school system. Initially, she wasn't teaching in a classroom.

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She was helping as an aide, and she was also

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working with the cheer squad at the mental and high

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school levels. In twenty twenty three, however, she does become

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a certified teacher and she starts teaching at Eugene Field

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Elementary School, and she starts coaching as the head coach

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of the elementary school's cheer team. Now, very limited information

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on this case came out, but I did manage to

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dig up some details. So I'm going to take you

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to March fifth of twenty twenty five, and an officer

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draws up an affidavit for rest alleging the following, and

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I'm going to read this one. It's very short, but

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it's the affidavit on this case, and it reads. On

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two twenty five of twenty twenty five, the Mexico Police

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Department was notified by a local school district in Mexico, Missouri,

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that one of the employees of the district, Jane Marie Nunneley,

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had been engaging in a sexual relationship with a currently

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enrolled student. Police were also notified that not Only had

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been engaged in a sexual relationship with a previous student

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when he was attending the school in the district. Police

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were also notified that Nunnely was an employee of the

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district during both sexual engagements. Police made contact with victim

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number one, who was a current student of the school

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in the local school district. Victim number one stated he

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engaged in vaginal sexual intercourse two times around June of

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twenty twenty four with Nunnely. Victim number one stated at

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both times he met with non Only in Ladonia, Missouri,

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and she transported him to her residence in Mexico, Missouri.

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Victim number one stated not Only had vaginal intercourse in

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her bedroom in her bed. Victim number one stated that

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not Only added him on social media platform prior to

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the sexual contact. Around five of twenty four. They spoke

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then arranged a meeting to engage in sexual intercourse. Mexico

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police made contact with victim number two, who while attending

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a school in the local school district, had multiple sexual

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encounters with Nunnely starting between March of twenty twenty two

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and April of twenty twenty two. Victim number two stated

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not only engage in oral sex with him and vaginal

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sex between fifteen and twenty five times while attending the

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school in a local school district. Victim number two stated

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not only added him on social media around three of

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twenty twenty two March and April of twenty twenty two,

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and they spoke for some time before engaging in a

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sexual relationship. Victim number two said he continued a sexual

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relationship with None only until early of twenty twenty four,

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so you're talking almost a two year time period. Victim

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number two graduated from the school in the local school

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district in twenty twenty two, so he graduates in twenty two,

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so he was a senior when all this was going down,

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and they actually continued for two years after that. So

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I'm not sure what the delay is here, but it's

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not until the twentieth of March of twenty twenty five

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that None only turns herself in. She's writer, Miranda writes,

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and under questioning from investigators, she states that she engaged

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in sex with victim number two, but she said he

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had already graduated from high school by that point. She

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also admitted to engaging in oral sex and vaginal intercourse

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with victim number two multiple times. She also admitted to

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exchanging phone numbers with victim number one in May of

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twenty twenty four, and then she began messaging him. She

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said he was her assistant in summer school duties in

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June of twenty twenty four, and she said that after

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summer school ended, she met him on two occasions and

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brought her back to brought him back to her house

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in Mexico, Missouri, and engaged in vaginal intercourse with victim

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number one in her bed. So she admitted to that,

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and Victim number one at this time was still a

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student at the high school, unlike victim number two. So

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it's important to note that the school hadn't known about

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this since late February, and they'd already fired Janey even

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before this the rest affidavit was drawn up. So of course,

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after her admission of these acts, she's put into jail

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and she's arraigned, and she pleaded not guilty, and she's

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given bail which she makes. So from March to October,

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there's no movement in this case. Then in October of

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twenty twenty five, she sees the writing on the wall,

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she takes a plea and she pleads guilty to one

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count of sexual contact with a student. As part of

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the deal, they dropped the other count. And on January

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ninth of twenty twenty six, just last month, the prosecution

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files what's known as a sentencing memorandum with the court,

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which is really just a memo saying, hey, we would

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like this fill in the blank as her sentence. And

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as part of this, some new information comes out in

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this memo, and I'm going to refer to what's known

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as a sentencing recommendation report, and it says the state's

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recommendation for the maximum sentence four years in the Department

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of Correction, so they're seeking them. It goes on to say,

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it is a profound betrayal of trust and authority to

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exploit a student. It's not just a crime. Such a

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sentence safeguards to the community while ensuring the defendant confronts

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the real harm caused by a power differential relationship. Miss

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Nunneley pleaded guilty to one count of sexual contact with

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a student, but she admitted to three inappropriate relationships with student.

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Two were sexual in nature and one involved using marijuana

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with the student. Miss Nunneley taught at the elementary school,

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but managed to acquire these connections with the high school

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students through working as a coach and as a supervising

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teacher for an A Plus program student. For both sexual relationships,

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Miss Nunneley identified herself as being the first to reach

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out to these students. She added one through Snapchat and

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provided the other with her phone number on a sticky note.

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These are not students with which she normally would have

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a high level of contact, but she took steps to

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reach out to these boys and form relationships that were

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inappropriate for a teacher and student. The state is always

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concerned about recidivism. This case is particularly troubling as it

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appears many mandated reporters failed miserably in their duties to

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make prompt calls when they heard about rumors of sex

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abuse of these miners. It is also worth noting that

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two of the letters in support of Miss Nunley were

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written by Jeff Anderson and Linda Mallett, who were other

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professionals working in the same school district. What does this

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say about the culture in this school district? This lasadaisical

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attitude requires a strong response to address the danger in

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our community. The sentencing Assessment report displays Miss Nunneley's distinct

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lack of understanding that she did anything wrong. In the

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section regarding criminal attitudes and behavior patterns, it's noted that

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Miss Nunteley exhibit remorse for what she had done. Unfortunately,

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this is undercut by her own version of events, where

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she places blame on others in states she did not

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think this affected the victim at all. Miss Nunneley explained

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that she did not know her actions were illegal, did

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not know they were against school policy, come on, and

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does not view seventeen year olds as miners. Miss Nunneley

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doesn't feel remorse for her actions. She feels remorse for

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the fact that she got caught. And I'm not going

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to read the rest of that. But how about that

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two letters of recommendation and support of this bad teacher

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by other teachers in the same school district. If they

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don't blow your mind, I don't know what else would.

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So on January twelfth of twenty twenty six, she sentenced,

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and as pride as I was for Missouri for that

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first teacher that we covered today, and the Senate says

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she got this one, I can't praise as much. Essentially,

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she gets five years probation, she must attend substance abuse

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counseling and that's for the marijuana that she smoked with

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the student. And she cannot consume alcohol. And get this,

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she's not even required to register as a sex offender.

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That's unbelievable to me. Heck of a deal for having

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sex with seventeen year old high school kids some twenty

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times at a minimum, allegedly. So let's go to Jefferson City, Missouri,

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and I'm going to tell you about Jennifer Cecil, who

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at the time of her arrest was forty one years old.

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She was a volunteer teacher at Lighthouse Prep Academy, which

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is a private Christian school in Jefferson City, Missouri. And again,

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shout out to listener Jessica for putting me onto this

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bad teacher. Thank you, Jessica. So was alleged in January

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of twenty twenty three that Jennifer Cecil had sexual intercourse

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with the student two to three times per week at

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her home over a seven month period, So do the

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math here. Basically, that is a minimum of fifty six

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different sexual encounters with a sixteen year old in seven months. Again,

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this chick is forty one years old. Now, there's not

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much out there as it relates to Jennifer's background, so

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I won't go into great detail on that other than

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to say it was reported she was very active in

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her church for many years, which would make sense considering

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the fact she was volunteering at a Christian school in

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the area, and also she was married when all of

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this came out. During the sexual instances with this minor, Now,

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how did all this come out? Well? As I told you,

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the alleged events took place two to three times a

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week on a weekly basis between December of twenty twenty

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two and July of twenty twenty three in Cecil's home.

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The victim told investigators that he and Cecil would use

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Instagram to communicate and send sexually explicit photise in doo.

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See a pattern with all these cases that I covered,

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always starts out on Instagram or Snapchat or something like that.

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Social media has made it easy for these predators, the

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victim said, that they would use the app's vanish mode,

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where messages disappear after you view them. So court documents

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say the victim's family they confronted Cecil about the relationship.

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Apparently this victim fessed up to his family that he

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had screwed this teacher fifty six times, and so they

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go to her. They asked her about this, and she

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confesses to this family that the allegations were true. So

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they did the right thing. They called police, and in

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July I have twenty twenty three, she is arrested. So

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note this here is a situation where the abuse was

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still going on up to the point that she was arrested.

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It's the only reason she stopped. So she's charged with

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four counts of first degree sexual abuse, second degree statutory rape,

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second degree sodomy, and sexual contact with a student. She's arraigned,

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she gets bond, and she gets an ankle monitor penning

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her trial. So there are a ton of delays with

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this one. Almost two years before. Yep, she cops a plea,

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and this is in January of twenty twenty five, and

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she pleads guilty to just one count of sexual abuse.

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And for all that she gets this a forty one

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year old. Mind you in a major position of authority,

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screwing a sixteen year old kid at least fifty six

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times over seven months. What do you think she got

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no fucking jail time? Zero none, sixteen years old, she

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gets ten years probation. If that don't make you say WTF,

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I don't know what does exactly? Why I do this

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for a living. Exposing these bad teachers fifty six times

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and you get no jail time unbelievable. I'd be all

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over that, judge. So let's go to our last one

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for today, and I'm gonna take you to Springfield, Missouri,

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witch Hey, home of bass per Shops for those of

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you out there that are bass Per shop fans, and

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I'm going to tell you about a bad teacher by

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the name of Carissa Jane Smith, who at the time

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of her rest was thirty one years.

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Old and at that age stands accused of nineteen felonies,

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including two for child trafficking involving students.

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So, according to the documents, Carissa worked for Dixon Middle

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School in Missouri as a substitute teacher for grades six

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through eight. It is alleged that during the twenty twenty

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two twenty twenty three school year, she engaged in sexual

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acts with at least two students, with one of the

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victims being fourteen years old or younger. She would pay

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these students cash, oftentimes one hundred dollars or more via

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cash app, which is like a million dollars to a

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fourteen year old right to have sex with them. It

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is also alleged she would provide them with marijuana and

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alcohol in exchange for sex acts. This chick was paying

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these students to sleep with her. These encounters would take

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place in various locations, including her home when her husband

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was at work, as well as her car, the side

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of the road, and in isolated gravel roads. Now, in

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twenty twenty three, before all of this came to light,

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Carissa is transferred to the high school level to be

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a para professional. She continues to be married at this point,

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and her husband at one point must have become suspicious

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that something wasn't rung with Carissa. He confronts her about it,

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and she tells her husband that a student was blackmailing

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her because she and the student smoked weed together and

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he videod. Her husband then allegedly confronts this student about

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that that's supposedly blackmailing her, threatens to beat him to death,

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the student with a baseball bat. So I think that's

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where everything's started coming out in this case. Then it

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gets even crazier. Her brother in law, her husband's brother.

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He somehow gets word that there's a video not of

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Carissa smoking weed with a stendant, but of Carissa having

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sex with a student. And he hears this is circulating

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among all these young people. He goes over to Carissa's

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house to ask her about this, and lo and behold,

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he finds his sister in law button naked, riding a

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fourteen year old student in the bed. So shortly after that,

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someone and it's not clear whom, but I would you know,

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I don't know if it's this guy I've not do

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or acknowledge, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was.

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Somebody reports it to the school, The school calls police

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and they start investigating, and as I said, she gets

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arrested on nineteen felonies, and she is in some deep shit.

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So when she gets arrested, she gets a two hundred

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and fifty thousand dollars bond, and she does manage to

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bind out of jail and for the next year until

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mid twenty twenty five, everything is quiet. But here's how

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dumb this hick is. While she is out on bond

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on nineteen felonies, trying to come up with a deal

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with prosecutors, what do you think happens? In September of

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twenty twenty five, authorities actually find Carissa at her home

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with one of the young victims. You can't make that

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shit up. She is arrested again on a charge of

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tampering with a witness, which, based on that charge I

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would assume or it sounds like she brought the victim

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there to try to talk him into not testifying. But

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that dumb decision actually revokes her bond and it's back

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to jail pending trial for Carissa. So in November of

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twenty twenty five, just a few months later, she realizes

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I'm squared. They got me dead to rights. She cops

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a plea and she actually receives ten years in prison.

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Now that does seem a little bit light to me.

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Remember the girl at the beginning of this case, the

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first teacher we covered, she got twenty years for much

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I don't know if i'd say much less infractions, but

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it wasn't as bad as what I just read you.

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And she got twenty years, but the Feds were involved.

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Feds were not involved here. But this chick had nineteen

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felon account and got ten years in prison. That's a

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pretty good deal for her. But there you have it.

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At least she didn't get probation, right like two of

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the cases that we covered today. So in Missouri's case,

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and I'm gonna start griting each state and I'm going

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to call this my bad Teacher's consequence scale, And in

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this case, I would grade them a C on my

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Bad Teachers Consequence Scale. Be curious to know what you

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would grade them. Thank you so much for listening. I'll

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be back next week with another episode of Bad Teachers. Now,

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we do drop other episodes on this feed. I just

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dropped one last week that is about the absolutely horrific

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abduction of Nancy Guthrie. That one has gotten a lot

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of play, so if you haven't had a chance, go

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listen to it. Things change daily. I'm probably going to

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do an update on that case coming up next week

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as well. But we drop all kinds of things on

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this feed. Bad Teachers will of course be an ongoing

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series as we go through the fifty States. Thank you

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