A Missouri teacher has been charged with statutory rape for allegedly having sexual relations with a 16-year-old student while other students acted as “lookouts,” and the boy’s father also faces a felony charge for tolerating the disturbing relationship.
Laquey High School math teacher Hailey Clifton-Carmack, 26, was arrested in Garden Ridge, Texas, on Friday after she “was suspected of fleeing the state of Missouri” to avoid arrest warrants, according to police. authorities.
Allegations of sexual crimes committed by Clifton-Carmack first emerged on December 7, 2023.
A fellow student reported the alleged illicit relationship to the school’s resource officer, who immediately contacted the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Department, court documents show.
The witness then met with law enforcement officers, to whom he showed photographs of his classmate with scratches on his back.
The witness alleged that the “scratches were from Hailey after the confidential victim had sex with her” in the “driveway” of the witness’s home.
Laquey High School math teacher Hailey Clifton-Carmack, 26, was arrested in Garden Ridge, Texas, on Friday. LaqueyR5 School / Facebook
The witness also claimed that the math teacher had gotten into trouble with school administrators in the past for “being too close to students.”
Clifton-Carmack, a recently divorced mother of two, often wore “tight or low-cut shirts” to show off her “headlights” and “tight leggings that ‘showed off her camel toe,’” according to court documents.
The witness told investigators that the victim was the reason “their divorce was pushed through” and that “Hailey had wanted a divorce because her husband just wanted to ‘do things like hell,'” the court document revealed.
Detectives confronted the teacher on December 8, 2023, following the allegations, but she denied having any sexual relationship with any student.
She was charged with endangering the welfare of a child in the first degree, statutory rape in the second degree, sexual contact with a student and child abuse in the fourth degree. Garden Ridge Police Department
Police confiscated his phone but were unable to access its contents until a court order was granted.
After a warrant was issued to access the phone on Dec. 22, police found text messages showing an alleged relationship between the 16-year-old student and the educator, according to court documents.
Clifton-Carmack left Missouri to visit family in Texas around December 23.
Police interviewed “individuals who lived at the residence where Hailey previously lived” in Missouri on January 3, 2024, who shared that she had “moved to Texas to live with her family there” and “were not sure if “If I was going to go to Texas.” go back.”
Clifton-Carmack often wore “tight or low-cut shirts” to show off her “headlights” and “tight leggings that ‘showed off her camel toe,’” according to court documents.
Arrest warrants were issued for the teacher shortly thereafter.
After her arrest in Texas on Friday, she was charged with first-degree endangering the welfare of a child, second-degree statutory rape, sexual contact with a student and fourth-degree child abuse. Her bail was set at $250,000, according to court records.
She is awaiting extradition to Missouri from the Comal County Jail.
District Superintendent Kent Stoumbaugh said Clifton-Carmack had not been on school grounds since the allegations first came to light, in a statement provided to ABC 17.
The superintendent said the district is not expecting Clifton-Carmack to return. View of Google St.
“The alleged misconduct is inexcusable and does not meet professional standards for district employees. The district took immediate action once we became aware of this situation,” Stoumbaugh wrote.
“The employee has not been in the district since December 8, 2023 and we do not anticipate her return.”
Stoumbaugh shared that Clifton-Carmack had worked at the school for about a year and a half, and that the job was her first teaching job.
The boy’s father, Mark Creighton, was arrested Thursday on charges of endangering the welfare of a child. Mark Creighton/Facebook
In a surprising twist, new charges have been filed against the boy’s father, who allegedly revealed to others that he was aware of his son’s illicit relationship with the teacher.
Mark Creighton was arrested Thursday on charges of endangering the welfare of a child.
On Wednesday, a second witness revealed that they told the teen’s father about the alleged irregularities, to which he responded that he knew Clifton-Carmack and her 16-year-old son were in a “sexual relationship,” according to court documents.
Court documents show the father was allegedly aware of his son’s illicit relationship with the teacher.
The father also allegedly shared that he knew his son and the math teacher used other students as “vigilators” to have sex during school hours.
Creighton “knew of his youngest son and the 26-year-old teacher’s relationship, and instead of reporting the information, he continued to cover up for them and allowed the relationship to continue” and “even allowed Hailey to come to his residence.” and seeing the victim while she was present,” according to prosecutors.
The teen’s father is being held on $50,000 bail. Mark Creighton/Facebook
When the witness told Creighton they would come forward with the information, he responded by telling them that his son and Clifton-Carmack “are going to do it behind my back, so I might as well let it happen.”
He also reportedly told a witness that he would lie for his son if necessary.
The teen’s father is being held on $50,000 bail.
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