Substitute teacher ‘gave students money and drugs to have sex with her’
A substitute teacher has been busted for allegedly giving her students money and drugs in exchange for sex.
Carissa Smith is accused of offering her students at least $100 for sex or oral sex in her car or at her home, said the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Department.
One victim said he met Smith when she served as a substitute teacher at Dixon Middle School in Missouri and said she sent him her nude photos and prepositioned him, read a probable cause statement.
The student said that Smith told him not to tell anyone or ‘she would get into trouble’, according to the statement obtained by The Kansas City Star.
Smith, who worked with the Dixon School District, allegedly also gave her students marijuana and alcohol and let them use the drugs while she was around, per court records.
She was arrested on Tuesday.
‘This is very disturbing and distressing information for everyone in our school community,’ Dixon R-1 School District Superintendent Travis Bohrer wrote in a letter to parents obtained by the newspaper.
The school district heard about Smith’s alleged acts earlier in the school year, he said, but did not elaborate amid the investigation.
Smith faces 19 charges, including eight counts of second-degree statutory rape, a count of second-degree statutory sodomy, three counts of sexual misconduct with a student, two counts of sexual misconduct with a student, two counts of second-degree sexual trafficking of a child under age 18, a count of patronizing prostitution and two counts of hindering prosecution.
Prosecutors said she may be hit with more charges pending more interviews with possible victims.
Smith was booked into the Pulaski County Detention Center with her bond set at $250,000.
She resigned from her post as a paraprofessional and long-term substitute teacher at Dixon High School in August.
Smith was taken into custody less than a month after a Texas middle school teacher was arrested for allegedly having sex with a 15-year-old boy who was a student, over summer break.
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