A Florida woman, previously named “Rookie Teacher of the Year,” admitted to committing sexual crimes against a 14-year-old student. However, the disgraced professor managed to avoid going to prison.
Former high school drama teacher Brittiny Lopez-Murray pleaded guilty to three counts of lewd and lascivious battery, one count of lewd and lascivious sexual abuse of a child between the ages of 12 and 16, and two counts of harmful electronic transmission for minors. according to Miami-Dade court records.
In the plea deal, López-Murray avoids prison. She was sentenced to two years of community control plus 10 years of probation, she must register as a sex offender and must attend a program for mentally disturbed sex offenders.
Prosecutors said the plea deal was approved by the victim’s family.
Lopez-Murra, 33, is a former Hialeah High School theater teacher who received the school’s “Rookie Teacher of the Year” honor in 2017.
Lopez-Murray abused one of his teenage students, whom he previously taught in seventh and eighth grade classes, according to the affidavit. The student was reportedly in high school when the child sexual abuse occurred.
López-Murray began the relationship with the teenager in August 2021.
According people magazine“The teacher and her former student met at a local Starbucks for breakfast and then she sexually abused him in her white Jeep, even after she picked him up from basketball practice and home, according to the affidavit.”
The boy allegedly told police they had engaged in multiple sexual acts in his car, including in a shopping center parking lot and at a grocery store.
The couple exchanged text messages about “how much they enjoyed sex together,” according to the affidavit.
Lopez-Murray allegedly sent her former student a “long text message, where she expressed her feelings towards him and how she felt about him,” according to an arrest affidavit.
However, the boy’s sister became suspicious when she noticed that her brother spent a lot of time on his cell phone and did not allow anyone to see what he was doing, according to court documents.
As Blaze News previously reported, the sister allegedly took possession of the phone and viewed the “explicit text messages and photos” sent between the boy and the teacher. The sister then alerted her father about the sexual text messages.
The affidavit said, “The defendant also groomed, enticed, and encouraged the victim to send images of child pornography by writing things like ‘perfect and mmm.'”
López-Murray was arrested in October 2021.
Miami-Dade County Public Schools terminated her employment after she was arrested.
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