Teacher Had 3-Year Affair with Student, 15, at School Where Husband Was Principal

The wife of a high school principal is facing up to two years in jail for having a three-year affair with an underage student.

JoAnn Stephens, from Texas, pleaded guilty to a single charge of improper conduct after a plea deal with prosecutors.

Four other charges against her were dropped.

The 43-year-old had an affair with a 15-year-old student at her husband’s school where she was working as a substitute teacher.

Stephens was an elementary physical education teacher and girls’ athletics coach at Mineola ISD. Before she resigned in December, she had been an employee with the school district since 2006.

The alleged relationship with the male student started when he was 15. He graduated in 2010, according to the probable cause affidavit.

The affair lasted three years and only ended after the pair were caught leaving a secluded spot where they had sex.

Mineola Police Department received a complaint from Child Protective Services in August regarding a ‘reported inappropriate relationship’ between a school employee and a student.

After several months of investigations, officers found probable cause existed to charge Stephens with the offence of ‘improper relationship between educator and student’, according to police information.

Investigators found DNA evidence from both the teacher and the boy inside a pick-up truck that linked the two together.

They also reportedly confiscated text messages and other cell phone records that linked the pair and proved the three-year relationship.

According to the arrest affidavit, Stephens also gave the teen a prepaid cell phone, and witnesses said she allegedly gave him candy, gifts, clothes and money.

The affair began when Stephens, a PE teacher, was employed as a substitute teacher at Mineola High School in Mineola, Texas.

Her husband Ricky Stephens was principal of the school.

Stephens was originally charged with five second-degree felonies: two counts of sexual assault of a child, two counts of inappropriate relationship of educator and student and one count of online solicitation.

But under a plea deal only the improper relationship charge was brought against Stephens in return for a guilty plea.

The charge carries a sentence of between two and 20 years.

Stephens’s lawyer Dan Wyde said she is ready to face her fate: ‘Mrs Stephens has been very calm throughout this process. She understand the seriousness and the nature of the allegations.’

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Video Surfaces – Rape Victim Walks Steadily To Her Door Despite Claims She Was Too Drunk To Stand

The Gap fashion executive accusing two policemen of rape has been shown walking steadily up to her door in previously-unseen surveillance footage in court.

Witnesses have said the 28-year-old was so drunk she could not even stand up before the alleged rape by NYPD cops Kenneth Moreno and Franklin Mata.

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The video did show accused rapist Moreno and lookout Mata making three return trips in five hours, but the policemen are hoping the 2008 CCTV tape will help their case.

The woman’s taxi driver and three of her friends have so far told jurors that she was a drunken wreck after a night of champagne and five Jack Daniel’s and Red Bull drinks.

But the video footage seems to show the woman animated, walking steadily and talking with Mata while extending her hand in a conversational gesture.

Mata places his hand on the woman’s back as she approaches the door and Moreno follows them behind, according to the tape shown in New York’s Supreme Court.

She is then seen pushing her own door in East Village, reported the New York Post.

Moreno and Mata, charged with conspiring to rape the woman, deny intercourse that night and hope they will not be convicted if intoxication cannot be proven.

But prosecutors Coleen Balbert and Randolph Clarke have promised much evidence proving she was too drunk to consent, such as test results for blood-alcohol content.

Prosecutors claim a taxi driver called 911 to say she was too drunk to get herself out of a taxi. Their case rests on the woman being too drunk to consent to having sex.

The officers helped her into the flat but later returned and Moreno raped her while Mata stood watch, prosecutors said.

‘She seemed intoxicated,’ one visitor to her flat said. ‘By her appearance. The way she’s walking. The way her heels sounded.’

The woman’s boss also cried as she told jurors earlier in the trial that the woman was ‘devastated’ and ‘demoralized’ after the incident.

Joseph Tacopina, defending, has previously claimed the woman only became ’100 per cent positive’ she was raped after filing a $60million lawsuit against New York City.

Moreno and Mata deny all charges, including rape and burglary. The trial continues.

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