Houston police are searching for a middle school teacher who they say had sex with a former student for months, the Houston Chronicle reported. Alexandria Vera, a 24-year-old English teacher at Stovall Middle School, has been charged with continuous sexual abuse of a child, the Chronicle reported.
Vera said the relationship began in September 2015, and said she and the 13-year-old were in love, according to court documents obtained by the Houston Chronicle. According to the documents, Vera told Aldine ISD police she met the student at summer school in 2015. The student asked for her Instagram name, which she refused to provide. He later found her, and she rejected the request.
When school resumed in the fall, Vera said the boy flirted with her and made inappropriate comments. The student eventually asked if they could hang out and she agreed, the documents state.Vera told police when she picked up the boy, they kissed in the car and later had sex at his parents’ house. She met the boy’s parents at a school open house in October and went over to the boy’s house where she was introduced as his girlfriend to the parents, who were accepting of the relationship, according to the documents.
Documents state the sexual encounters continued on an almost daily basis. Vera told police the boy often spend the night at her house and she’d drive him home in the morning so he could catch the bus. She told police that she became pregnant in January and that the family was supportive and excited about the baby, documents state.
She said she had an abortion after Child Protective Services showed up at the school in February to ask about her relationship with the boy. She said she denied the pregnancy and the relationship to CPS, documents state. A forensic analysis of Vera’s phone, which she provided to officials, showed messages between the two that were consistent with what Vera told police.
In a statement from Aldine ISD provided to the Chronicle, district officials said Vera was immediately removed from the school in April after allegations were made and placed on administrative leave “Aldine ISD Police investigated the incident and turned their findings over to the Harris County District Attorney’s Office,” the statement reads. “The safety and security of Aldine ISD’s students and staff remains a priority of the school district. Houston Police are still searching for Vera.”
Stovall Middle School was in the news in 2014 after a teacher was accused of giving a student a lap dance on his birthday. She was given probation.