The “Grooming Law” And the Arrest of Sadie Flores

0:19 Hi, everyone, Welcome back to Exposed Scandalous Files of the Elite. I am your host, Jim Chapman, and today I am going to bring you a case that is growing as we speak in the state of Kentucky. But the law that I'm going to talk about today, and the law this teacher is charged with, is really a new law in many parts of the country, including my state of Louisiana, and that is the new grooming law. So before we get into the very first arrest to take place when this grooming law went into effect in the state of Kentucky, and wouldn't you know it, it was a teacher, which I love teachers, y'all, so don't come at me if you're a teacher, because all of the good teachers that I know want me exposing these bad teachers. No one hates a bad teacher more than a good teacher because they throw shade on the entire profession when.

1:19 They do stupid stuff. Like I'm going to tell you about today. Now, before we get into it, I want to break down what grooming is specifically in the state of Kentucky, because that is where this case is being prosecuted. But the definition could really apply to just about any state. So Kentucky's grooming law codified as KRS five ten point one six zero, that is grooming a minor. It was created by House Bill number four of the twenty twenty six regular. Session in Kentucky and it took effect just a. Few weeks ago from this recording July fifteenth of twenty twenty six. So the gist of this law is a person is guilty of grooming a minor when a being eighteen years of age or older, he or she engages in grooming behavior directed at a miner who is under fourteen years old with the intent to entice, coerce, solicit, or induce a minor to engage in sexual conduct with the person or another person, or and it goes into section B. Being a person of authority or position of special trust, as those terms are defined, he or she engages in grooming behavior directed at a miner who is under eighteen with the intent to one entice, coerce, solicit,

2:51 or induce the minor into sexual conduct with the person or another person, or to develop an intimate or secretive relatelationship. With the minor. And that number two is going to create an issue for our subject for today. Now, it goes on to say, for violation of sub Section one, a grooming a minor is a Class A misdemeanor, unless the miner is under twelve years old, in which case it is a Class D felony. So a misdemeanor twelve years and older of felony under the age of twelve, Then sub Section B says, for a violation of sub Section one of this section, grooming a minor is a Class D felony, unless the miner is under twelve, in which case it's a Class C felony. Any sentence impost on the defendant under this section shall run concurrently with any sentence imposed foreign offense specified in this Chapter arising from the same course of conduct with the same victim. This section shall not be construed to prevent a person from communicating with a minor for any lawful or legitimate purpose, including, but not limit to, teaching curriculum on human sexuality or STDs as provided, and it gives the section code the use of traceable communication systems by a school, district employee or volunteer, the diagnosis or treatment of a minor by a health care provider, any health care facility communicating with a minor to determine

4:22 if the minor is dependent, neglected, or abused, age appropriate conversations about puberty or human sexuality with a minor by the minor's sibling or parent or guardian, and then any conversation with a minor that is part of a person's job related or volunteer related duties. Effect of July fifteenth of twenty twenty six. Now the key related definition from all of that means grioming behavior is a course of conduct directed at a minor that is intended to establish an emotional connection with a minor through manipulation, trust building, or in lunce to a facilitate future acts of sexual conduct or being normalized or.

5:06 Desynthesized the minor two acts. Of sexual conduct, even in no in person meeting or act of sexual conduct is completed. This conduct may occur online or in person, through third parties, or by any other indirect methods to facilitate the manipulation of a minor. So that law went. Into effect in Kentucky as I said on July fifteenth, and just three weeks later, on August seventh, of twenty twenty six, the state made the very first arrest under this law, arresting twenty five year old middle school teacher Sadie Flores. Now, what did she do, how did police discover it? In? What type of sentence is she possibly facing. That's what we're going to cover today, so let's get into it.

5:52 In twenty five year old Sadie Flores was a teacher at Graves County Middle School and miss in Mayfield, Kentucky, which is a smaller city in Kentucky, just ten thousand residents and it's less than seven miles seven square miles in size. Now, in twenty twenty one, a major disaster hit. The city of Mayfield. And you may be like, man, I thought, I've heard of Mayfield, Kentucky before, and this may be where you heard it. It was Sadie's hometown and where she herself was a volleyball star. Now, Sadie was nineteen when an EF four tornado ripped through that city. This was on the night of December tenth of twenty twenty one, and it was horrific y'all, over four thousand structures were damaged or completely destroyed in that city, including nearly thirty eight hundred residences and one hundred and eighty three commercial buildings just decimated this town. And sadly, twenty two people in this small city were killed in two more in a neighboring city. Now, why do I bring that up? Because Sadie was very active on Facebook with pictures of the devastation from this horrific event, request for prayers, all those sorts of things. And she was really dedicated to this city from all, from everything really that I can see and find. Now, Sadie gets married on June third of

7:24 twenty twenty two to her high school sweetheart. She was active in her church and her wedding pictures they would depict a handsome groom and a stunningly beautiful young lady. She is really attractive here, I mean all appearances, seems to be living the good life, right, She's got a handsome husband, She's starting out in her work world and in her career. And in twenty twenty three she graduates college. Now she has a young daughter in early twenty twenty five. And look, it's obvious that Sadie was really proud to become a teacher. Believe it or not.

8:04 Her Facebook is still up and I was able to kind of go through there and you can tell very proud to become a teacher, very proud of her family. Seems like just your normal, everyday, awesome person on the outside. Now, she is. An LBD teacher at Graves County Middle School, which I had no clue what that was, so I looked it up, and an LBD teacher is basically the same. As a special education teacher. They teach students from kindergarten through high school who has specific learning disabilities, minor intellectual disabilities, emotional and behavior disorders or ADHD. Now, the most vulnerable students are who she taught.

8:52 And it's not clear if what I'm I about to tell you about was an LBED student or a regular student, and nothing's came out on that, but it's worth mentioning what she did because of nothing else, it shows that she worked with these kids who were very vulnerable. Now you see all that, you couple it with what appears to be a growing family, and you have to think, Wow, this girl is on track. So what happened here? Well, a charging document comes out from police, and the local sheriff says that police first learned that Flores was having what he called an improper relationship with a student through the school district who called to get police involved. Deputies, of course they investigate this.

9:39 They see these. Electronics, cell phones, They conduct interviews with people, including Flores, and at that time whatever was said in that interview caused them to place her under arrest, and that uniform citation that came out it went further saying the parent of a fourteen year old student went through the fourteen year old's phone and apparently found messages between Flores in this student. And I can't say how key that is for any parent. Get in your kid's business and you're going to learn why that's so important later on. But go through the phone, be sneaky, do whatever you have to do. There too many ways for bad actors to contact your children these days now. Investigators say the messages upon review were determined to not be a legitimate purpose and were not school related, meaning the messages weren't anything to do with innocence right. The parent also identify multiple incoming phone calls that were identified as FaceTime calls that occurred on multiple occasions in the late evening hours that mom and dad had no idea about. So this teacher is facetiming this student late at night when everybody else is asleep, Allegedly.

10:58 The document goes on to say, during the investigation, the police discovered communication on multiple social media apps, which I would assume y'all was private messages, and that these messages appeared to be attempts to. Manipulate this fourteen year old, and that the. Messages did express feelings of love and admiration more so than just a teacher student relationship. That's how they laid that out. Nothing as far as concrete text have come out as of this recording. It was also determined that Flores and the student met in secret prior to a school function outside of school for the specific purpose of meeting, which means Flores was not part of the school function that was going on, but she lived in close proximity to the event and goes and meets this fourteen year old in secret in person. Now, that investigation, it goes on to say, is on going pending Snapchat and Instagram records, meaning more charges may be coming. And I don't know one way or the other, but I would suspect there's probably going to be more charges laid down once they get the records of the snapchat in Instagram chats. Now, Flores is being charged with a Class D felony aspect of that new grooming law specifically, and that is grooming of a miner by a person in a position of

12:28 authority by developing a secretive relationship with the miners. So, keeping all that a secret actually moved her shit up from a misdemeanor to a felony. So let's go over the position of authority section of this law again, using the specific section she was charged with. It reads being a person in a position of authority or special trust engaging in grooming behavior with a minor under the age of eighteen by attempting to entice, co worse, solicit or induce the minor to engage in sexual activity. So there's probably some evidence there that the police have. You could derive by the charges that not only was she talking inappropriately to him, she was trying to induce him into sexual activity, which it's important to mention just a month ago, the attempt was not necessarily illegal. It certainly could get you fired if you were a teacher, but you couldn't technically get arrested for a felony for just say, asking a student to have sex. Now, you can now they may discover this relationship went a little bit further than just talking, and I have my suspicions, but no evidence has come out yet, but if it does, you can rest assured those charges.

13:47 Will go up. Now, as it stands, her class D felony comes with a one to five year possible prison sentence in a ten thousand dollars fine if she had no actual conduct or contact with this student. One to five years obviously goes up from there if they find out pictures were exchanged new pictures, or sex was being had, those sorts of things. Now, surprisingly, at least of this recording, as I said, her. Facebook page is still up. As a matter of fact, you can see her just four days prior to this arrest at a church function with her husband and her child, just living a blessed life.

14:32 So after the. Arrest, the school comes out and they essentially say they were made aware that mom found all this communication and that they immediately made the police aware. And that's a good thing because that is exactly what they should have done. No attempt to cover up that you see sometimes with these schools where they're worried about getting shade thrown on them. Or the blame being thrown on them, and some school districts do try to hide it, cover it up. They didn't in this case. They called the police right off the bat. Now, you may wonder what led Kentucky to enacting this grooming law. In one of the. Cases that actually led to it involved a band director at a high school in Kentucky who used grooming to the extreme over a year of grooming before sexually assaulting a student.

15:25 I'll tell you about that in just a few minutes. Now. Currently, if you're curious, eighteen states criminalized grooming. So I would for sure advise to see if your state, like mine in Louisiana and in Kentucky, have grooming laws to make it a criminal act. And that's important. If not, you need a lobby or legislators, y'all. That is what they're there for. So Sadie Flores arraiment is set for September. Obviously she is no longer employed with the school district, and I of course will keep you updated. But I went ahead and I mentioned the music director case above as the specific case that sparked Kentucky to look into this new grooming law. So I figured why not cover that with you as well, so you have a full picture, because that's really all we have on Sadie Flores' case as of this point.

16:24 So I'll just tell it to you quickly. In twenty twenty one, the Anderson County High School marching band they won a four A state championship and the director was a longtime teacher named Patrick Howard Brady. Now, he had been at the school for more than a decade. Parents trusted him, students looked up to him, and he had the authority that comes with being a person who runs a band program. Now less than two years later, that same man was sitting in a federal courtroom in Lexington, facing a maximum of third years in prison. So what happened, Well, while he was still the band director, he was using text messages FaceTime in a photography app called VSCO and I know most of y'all are familiar with that. He used that to groom one of his underage female students into a sexual relationship. They had sex inside the high school.

17:24 Multiple times. He would direct her how to pose on live video calls and there were more than twenty incidentally of these live video calls, and when police started investigating, he deleted the app, so he's attempting to hide. It at that point. Right. A little bit about him. He was born in nineteen eighty six and by the time of these crimes he was living in the Springfield area of Kentucky. He would join the Anderson County School system in two thousand and nine and for more than ten years he taught and served as the high school band, and under his leadership, the marching band achieved major success, including a twenty twenty one four A state championship for bands.

18:10 That's a huge deal, and in a small community like Anderson County, the band director pretty prominent figure has unique access to students. He sees these kids almost. Every day for after school rehearsals, weekend competitions, travel, you name it. Parents hand their children over to him for long hours. In students, they often formed close, almost like familial bonds with a good band director. Brady had that position of trust and authority, and he used it for evil. So the victim in this case was a female student born in two thousand and six.

18:52 She was a freshman in the. Band during that twenty twenty one to twenty two school year, and according to Brady's own defense, sentencing memorandum. The next school year, she broke up with her boyfriend and she starts hanging around Brady's office before and after school, and that's when the private communication started. This young, impressionable lady's got her heart broke. She broke up with a boyfriend, and he is grooming her. At this point, he's going to be the shoulder to cry on. Right. Summer of twenty twenty two, text messages, phone calls, facetimes, they all start flying, and Brady later admitted in his federal plea agreement that he used text messaging FaceTime and that the CEO social media photography app, which is one you wouldn't think of, right, so write that down. Maybe that's something. If you find that app on your child's phone, you need to look into it because you can message from that app.

19:51 But he mentioned that he was. Using these to quote groom this student for a romantic sexual relationship, and that's important. Grooming were his words. He would continue to groom his way into the relationship, and he would groom this student into building an emotional dependence on him first. So he took all the time he needed to get her to trust him emotionally and then he exploited it, and then he sexualized it. So, according to the plea agreement, these sexually explicit FaceTime calls happened one to four times per week, more than twenty times in total, and Brady told the victim how to pose in these calls. These were not still images he was collecting, y'all, not that that's any better. These were live video sessions between a thirty six year old band director and one of his underage students.

20:53 But it didn't stay digital. Brady and the victim would then engage and in person's sexualization on multiple occasions. Several of those. Acts happened inside the Anderson County High School, and the overall window of this sexual contact ran from roughly the spring of twenty twenty two into the spring of twenty twenty three, maybe a little beyond, so almost a full year, if not a full year, while he was still the band director at that school. Then on May twelfth of twenty twenty three, law enforcement they receive a complaint the Anderson County Sheriff's office in Kentucky State Police, they opened an investigation. The victim provided a statement. Brady finds out about this and he deletes that vs CO application from his phone, and three days later, on May fifteenth of twenty twenty three, Anderson County Schools suspend him. He would later be fired on August fourth of twenty twenty three. Now, in July twenty twenty three, he was formally charged and indicted by an Anderson County grand jury on eleven state counts, four counts of first degree unlawful transaction with a minor promoting a sexual performance by a minor, third degree rape, two counts of third degree sodomy, which, incidentally, a lot of people ask me, is sodomy just antal sex? It's

22:24 not oral sex is also considered sidamy. Just f why. He was also charged with first degree sexual abuse unlawful use of electronic means to induce a minor in tampering with physical evidence. He gets held on one hundred thousand dollars bond, and federal charges followed in December of twenty twenty three, which included online enticement, receipt of child pornography material, in production of a visual depiction of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct. So she was posing for him, apparently nude, and it looks like they may have had some pornographic material between each other that was found on these electronics. Now, in April of twenty twenty four, Brady pleaded in both cases. Federally, he pleaded to guilty to one count of production of a visual depiction of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct. The other two federal counts were dismissed, and in state court he pleaded guilty to the package of eleven counts, and the state recommended fifteen years with parole. Then the federal city seen it would come on August twenty second of twenty twenty four, and he received twenty five years for that in federal prison with a five thousand dollars fine in lifetime supervised release. Now, under federal law, he must serve at least eighty five percent of that sentence. There is no parole. He can't

23:57 be in jail for four years and then go and ask for parole. Well, he can't get parole before eighty five percent of that sentence, and it's not considered parole. Well, what he'll get is a little bit of good time. Brady appealed, of course, all of these convictions and especially the reasonableness of the twenty five year sentence, which I find it very reasonable, and in May twenty twenty five, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeal they affirmed it and said no, very reasonable. So the implications of this case went much further with the passage of that grooming law in Kentucky. It led to that passage, So there was some good to come out of that in the long term because it forced states to look at the seriousness of grooming. Now you may be curious what states already have criminal grooming laws. Well, I look that up so you don't have to, and I'm going to tell you about him.

24:50 Arkansas. If you're in the state of Arkansas, you have grooming laws that are considered criminal grooming laws. They were updated in twenty five, so they're pretty recent. Illinois criminalizes electronic and luring grooming actions. Texas and Nevada they passed standalone criminalization acts in twenty twenty three, so they're a little bit outdated. Possibly, so people may want to look at those and see if they need to be updated somewhat because obviously technology changes. Arizona, Georgia, Florida, Iowa, Vermont, and Wisconsin, y'all are all doing good passed or strengthened laws through twenty twenty four to twenty twenty six, with Wisconsin focusing heavily on authority figures in general adult prosecution.

25:41 So they're taking it very serious. Good for them. Ohio, Montana, Mississippi, and Louisiana added felony grooming statutes in twenty twenty five. In Wyoming, Missouri, Kentucky, and Minnesota passed and enacted anti grooming legislation in twenty six. So I want to say this very important. If you did not hear your state, y'all, lobby your legislators. Very important these grooming laws get on the books. This is exactly how these predators are starting to get to your children. No reason every single state should not have felony grooming laws on their books. If they don't, be a loud voice, get out there and ask your legislators why.

26:34 So there you have that. Now a couple of other things that I want to talk about quickly. Nolan Wells, of course have done several episodes on that case. Just a quick update. Not much has come out since the last episode, but it was interesting. The attorney for three of the young men who have been under fire. If you will over this case. Well he has disclosed that the family of Nolan Wells has never turned over Nolan's cell phone for police to even look at it and download the material, which if you're interested in getting to the bottom of this case, why would you withhold that now? Nolan Well's family attorneys they responded to that by saying, quote, Nolan's family has not refused to cooperate and the correspondence with the DA's office is proof of that. We agreed on July fifteenth to examine this phone together with their experts, are experts and possibly the FBI. We have continued to expect that the forensic examination of Nolan's phone would happen exactly as agreed on July fifteenth. In order to preserve the evidence, we ask for a protocol, a chain of custody, an agreement on what happens to the data. We have yet to receive these details, So you know, I struggle to understand why they're throwing up their.

27:56 Own roadblocks out there. I'm not going to speculate on why. I don't know why. It seems like anything that would help the police get to the bottom of this case, you would be willing to do right off the bat, it's obvious that they're saying, we don't trust the investigators in this case. We don't trust the district attorney in this case. So if you're going to look through his phone, we want to make sure we have representatives there to do it. I don't know where that mistrust comes from, honestly, but okay, but until you turn over that phone and you allow police to look at it, maybe there's something on there.

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