A North Carolina Spanish instructor has been accused of raping a 14-year-old pupil.
Heydi Monroy, 37, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with statutory rape and different crimes following a probe by Wellcome Center Faculty officers in Greenville.
A college useful resource officer reportedly launched an investigation following a report by one other worker.
In keeping with court docket paperwork seen by WITN, the crimes occurred on April fifth.
Pitt County Faculties Public Info Officer mentioned Monroy, who’s initially from Colombia, is not an worker on the center faculty.
Spanish instructor Heydi Monroy, 37, has been accused of raping a 14-year-old pupil
Monroy had been working on the faculty since August 2022.
She is being held with out bond as of Wednesday.
It comes as dozens of feminine lecturers have been arrested this yr throughout the nation for intercourse crimes involving college students – because the seeming variety of ‘cougars within the classroom’ continues to develop.
An extended line of feminine lecturers allegedly concerned with children throughout the nation dominates headlines.
DailyMail.com found that 25 feminine lecturers had been arrested in 16 states in solely the final 12 months – and it’s feared to be merely the tip of the iceberg as there seems to be no centralized knowledge assortment to trace this disturbing development.
Monroy, initially from Colombia, had been working on the faculty since August 2022
Pitt County Faculties Public Info Officer mentioned Monroy is not an worker at Wellcome Center Faculty in Greenville
In April, married New Jersey instructor Jessica Sawicki, 37, was arrested after cops discovered her half-naked within the again seat of a teen’s automobile at a wildlife heart. The mother-of-two allegedly admitted to police she and the coed had ‘unprotected’ intercourse at the very least 5 instances.
In Nebraska, 45-year-old Erin Ward was arrested after being caught bare within the backseat with a teen boy. The substitute instructor is married to a Division of Protection official and was shortly arrested on the scene by police.
Most of the accused feminine lecturers charged within the final yr are married and one was even named instructor of the yr.
The lecturers are engaging college students with sexually-charged texts, nude images and movies, earlier than and through bodily encounters, police say.
Between 2017 and 2022, at the very least 1,895 lecturers have had unfavorable motion taken towards their credentials by state schooling licensing boards for sexual misconduct and inappropriate relationships that might not be of a sexual nature, in accordance with the nonprofit Nationwide Affiliation of State Administrators of Instructor Training and Certification.
That determine is an underestimation since many states don’t present the rationale why a instructor’s credentials was suspended or revoked.
