Hannah Rose Fitzpatrick, a 19-year-old counselor at the Four Oaks Juvenile Facility in Iowa, has been accused of having sex with one of the juveniles. Furthermore, she is accused of helping three individuals escape. She was arrested on Tuesday, March 13.
According to reports, Fitzpatrick is accused of having sex with an underage individual who she was meant to be supervising at Four Oaks Juvenile Facility in Davenport, Iowa. Furthermore, authorities said she also drove the unidentified inmate and two others inmates out of the prison.
She allegedly admitted to Marion Police detectives that she had sex with the inmate. She was charged with an aggravated misdemeanor, which carries a prison sentence of up to two years in the state of Iowa.
Fitzpatrick posted her $2,000 bond and was released from custody.
Over the course of just a few months, educators across the country were arrested for entering into an inappropriate relationship with their students, Tennessee teacher Janet Smothers, LaToya Parker, Florida teacher Caroline Lawson, 26-year-old Allyson Moran and Katherine Ross Ridenhour were all arrested on similar charges.
The list goes on to include 22-year-old Oklahoma science teacher Hunter Day, 28-year-old teacher Megan Kotarski, 23-year-old history teacher Michelle Schiffer, 29-year-old Alyssia Marie Reddy, special education teacher Jordan Ondish and 28-year-old Samantha Fitzpatrick have all been allegedly carrying on inappropriate relationships with their students.
In addition, 31-year-old Nicole Marie Andrews, 32-year-old Jessica Langford, 29-year-old Andrea Baber, 27-year-old Robin Dunlap, 27-year-old Jennifer Olajire-Aro have also been charged with these charges.
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 and 23-year-old Darci Lake was arrested for an inappropriate relationship.