A Missouri highschool instructor has admitted to committing legal intercourse acts with a 16-year-old pupil whereas different teenagers acted as “lookouts,” a responsible plea that would get her a four-year jail sentence, in response to the Each day Mail.
Hailey Clifton-Carmack, 26, was a math instructor at Laquey Excessive Faculty when she was arrested in January after one other pupil reported her inappropriate relationship with the sufferer to police, offering a photograph of scratches she supposedly left on the boy’s again whereas having intercourse within the witness’s driveway.
The instructor pleaded responsible to sexual contact with a pupil on Friday in a deal that allowed her to keep away from different chargers, together with statutory rape, baby molestation, and baby endangerment, the outlet reported.
The sufferer’s father, Mark Creighton, can be dealing with felony fees for allegedly figuring out in regards to the relationship and condoning it. His case will proceed after Clifton-Carmack is sentenced on October 11, Pulaski County prosecutor Kevin S. Hillman mentioned.
Creighton “knew of the connection of his minor baby and the 26-year-old instructor, and as an alternative of reporting the data, he continued to cowl for them and allowed the connection to proceed” and “even allowed Hailey to return over to his residence and see the sufferer whereas he was current,” prosecutors mentioned in paperwork obtained by the New York Put up.
Clifton-Carmack, a divorced mom of two, initially denied the allegations when questioned by detectives in December 2023, however cops discovered textual content messages confirming the connection as soon as they confiscated her cellphone, the outlet reported.
Claiming she was visiting her household, the disgraced instructor took off to Texas simply days earlier than Christmas — however her former roommates advised police she had moved there completely.
She was finally arrested in Comal County, Texas, by the Backyard Ridge Police Division in January and hit with a slew of fees earlier than she pleaded them down.
