Posey County Jail
Camella Rodgers, a former fifth-grade elementary school teacher facing two child seduction charges, turned herself in on Wednesday, January 24.
Rodgers, a former Farmersville Elementary School fifth grade teacher in Mount Vernon, Indiana, is facing two preliminary charges of child seduction after reportedly engaging in a sexual relationship with an underage high school student.
According to the Mount Vernon school board, Rodgers resigned from her fifth-grade teaching position on December 4. After turning herself in, she was booked into Posey County Jail and posted a $1,505 cash bond.
via Courier & Press:
A 14-page probable cause affidavit filed in Posey County Circuit Court on Jan. 5 details an investigation by the Posey County Prosecutor’s Office and Mount Vernon Police Department.
The affidavit states Rodgers and the victim engaged in “various sexual acts” on multiple occasions while the girl was 17 years old. Rodgers was not the girl’s teacher. During the sexual relationship, which took place for about a year according to the affidavit, Rodgers was tutoring the victim in biology and assisted in coaching track while the girl was on the team.
In Indiana, the age of consent is 16, but someone commits child seduction if they engage in any sexual activity with a child over 16 but under 18 if they are in a position of supervision or trust over a child, such as a teacher, according to state law.
According to the affidavit, the alleged sexual acts happened at Farmersville Elementary School and in various locations in Posey County on or near private farmland.
This is the latest in a string of teacher/student sex scandals over the last couple of years. In November, Tennessee teacher Janet Smothers was arrested. Former nutrition teacher LaToya Parker was also arrested for a relationship with a student. Florida teacher Caroline Lawson was charged with sexual assault. 26-year-old Allyson Moran was also arrested for similar crimes. The 23-year-old high school teacher Katherine Ross Ridenhour was also arrested for an inappropriate relationship.
Furthermore, Hunter Day, 22, was also arrested after a sting operation. Megan Kotarski was also arrested on similar charges. Michelle Schiffer, a 23-year-old history teacher in Texas, was also charged and arrested for allegedly having sex with a teenage student. 29-year-old Alyssia Marie Reddy was arrested in Maryland for her crimes in New Jersey. Samantha Fitzgerland, a 28-year-old, was most recently arrested and charged. Jordan Ondish was arrested for her inappropriate relationship with a 19-year-old, while 28-year-old Samantha Fitzpatrick was arrested on similar charges.
Nicole Marie Andrews was arrested as well. 32-year-old Jessica Langford was arrested and charged with sexual assault-related crimes as well. A teacher from Oregon, Andrea Baber, was accused of having a sexual relationship with a student. Robin Dunlap, a teacher in Florida, was arrested for sending illicit photos to a 15-year-old boy in Texas. Teacher and tennis coach Jennifer Olajire-Aro was also charged. 42-year-old Heather Butts of California was arrested on a second-degree felony charge. Nancy Leigh Ann Brann, a former Christian school teacher, was arrested for having sex with a student. Coine Audiat pleaded no contest to having sex with a minor in 2016. 23-year-old Darci Lake was arrested for an inappropriate relationship.
Valeria Costadoni was also arrested due to a relationship with her student. 40-year-old Kisha Nuckols was arrested for having sex with a student, too. Hilary Dattilo, a 30-year-old Ohio high school teacher, has been accused of having a sexual relationship with a female student. 30-year-old Missouri teacher Elizabeth Morgan was also arrested on similar charges. Trisha Anderson Rogers, a 47-year-old former student teacher at a North Carolina middle school was sentenced to eight months in prison after pleading guilty to soliciting a young student for sex. 39-year-old Texas teacher Marisela Winn was also charged for her relationship with a student. Gabrielle Bauman who admitted to having a relationship with a student was only sentenced to probation. 29-year-old Dori Meyers has denied accusations against her about a relationship with an underage student.
