In yet another case of what experts are calling “rampant” teacher sexual misconduct in the US, a Texas substitute teacher has been arrested and charged with having an “inappropriate relationship” with a student.
The Llano County Sheriff’s Criminal Investigation Division arrested 27-year-old Angela Palmares on Wednesday and charged her deputy with “improper relationship between teacher and student,” a second-degree felony.
Palmares did his substitute teaching in the Llano Independent School District, located about 75 miles northwest of Austin in the city of Llano, which has a population of just 3,500 residents. The school district serves 2,000 students from the city and surrounding areas.
Upon receiving reports of her arrest, the school district “immediately removed the substitute teacher from the list of available substitutes,” according to a statement from the sheriff’s office.
The teacher came under investigation after school officials notified police about “inappropriate communications with students, particularly through a social media platform outside of the school day,” Mack Edwards, superintendent of the Llano Independent School District, said in a letter to families.
Neither the sheriff’s office nor the school district shared details about the communication, what grade she was teaching, or the age or gender of her alleged victim.
“The district takes all allegations of this nature extremely seriously and is committed to providing a safe and supportive environment for students,” the superintendent wrote.
“At this time, we are unable to provide additional details due to personnel and student privacy concerns,” he said.
Palmares is being held on $150,000 bond New York Post Reported on the basis of jail records.
As Breitbart News reported in an exclusive investigation last month, incidents of teacher sexual misconduct with students are making headlines on a weekly basis, with leading researchers describing such cases as “rampant” in the United States over the past two decades.
Breitbart’s report found cases occurring in school districts large and small, from public schools in small towns to elite academies in big cities.
Furthermore, while reports involving young attractive female teachers like Palmares generate salacious headlines and command a large share of national coverage, in reality male perpetrators are responsible for nine out of ten cases of sexual abuse of vulnerable students.
Prominent researchers cite a culture of permissiveness, reluctance to report fellow teachers, and covert teacher-student contact, often via the Internet, as factors contributing to teacher sexual abuse of students.
One researcher described the problem as “100 times worse” than the highly publicized sex scandals that have rocked the Catholic Church in previous decades.
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