FISHERS, Ind. — A Fishers teacher is facing multiple charges in connection to an inappropriate relationship with a student.
The Fishers Police Department received an anonymous tip involving a Fishers Christian Academy teacher and volleyball coach involved in inappropriate relationships with female students.
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According to court documents, detectives went to speak with the 34-year-old teacher at his home, where he allegedly admitted to having a relationship with a female student of his for approximately 12 to 18 months.
Court documents say the teacher told detectives the student sent him inappropriate photos and videos. The teacher also allegedly admitted to taking the student home from school on multiple occasions, and they would sometimes kiss when he dropped her off.
"We want to spend the rest of our lives together," the teacher allegedly told detectives on his relationship with the student.
Detectives then spoke with the student, who allegedly told them the teacher threatened her by saying he would place the blame on her if she didn't "comply about it." The student said she continued the relationship with the teacher because she "didn't want anything to happen and didn't want to be in trouble."
According to court documents, the student allegedly told detectives she didn't consent to touching the teacher.
Each message Sammie Jo scrolled past on her phone Wednesday is a different man that thinks he's talking to a 13-year-old girl, but is really her.
"They'll either block us and continue, or they continue and, sadly enough, more often than not, they continue. They don't stop," said Sammie Jo, who works with Predator Hunters Indiana.
One of her most recent captures, as she calls it, involves that Fishers teacher. Sammi Jo said the messaging didn't last long before he started sexually explicit talk with her teenage decoy.
"He kept saying, 'I want to hook up, I want to hook up,' and a teenager knows what a hookup means and she's asking, 'What? What do you mean you want to hook up? Like, what do you mean? Do you mean sex? Are you saying hook up like sex?' He said 'I want to have sex with you. I will come and get you and we'll have sex,'" alleges Sammie Jo.
Sammi Jo said sadly, this isn't the first person in a school setting she's come across preying on who they think is a young child.
"Some of them had allegations on them before and the school they were at would just fire them and do nothing, so they go to another school," claimed Sammie Jo.
Sammi Jo, a mother herself, understands as a parent, you can't be everywhere at once, but there are steps they can take to make sure their child is safe from people trying to prey on them.
"Check your child's device. Check their phones. Check their video games. When they're on their video games, don't let them wear those headsets. Make them take those headsets off so you can hear who they're talking to and what they're saying," said Sammie Jo.
Police arrested the teacher on the following preliminary charges:
- Dissemination of matter harmful to minors
- Child solicitation
- Child seduction
- Sexual misconduct with a minor
- Promotion of child sex trafficking
- Vicarious sexual gratification
The Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office will make the final charging decisions.
Detectives were also made aware of past allegations of the teacher involved with a student in California, as well as the teacher allegedly recently pursuing 13-year-old girls over Whisper and TextNow apps.