Ruckel Middle School FL. teacher has sex w/ female student over two years
Christopher Koulouris February 8, 2021
Hayley Hallmark Niceville Florida Okaloosa County middle school teacher arrested for having two-year sexual relationship with a teen female student.
A Florida middle school teacher had a two-year sexual relationship with a teen female student that included secret encounters in her classroom along with at both the teacher’s and victim’s home, Okaloosa County deputies said in a Facebook release.
Hayley Morgan Hallmark, a 35-year-old teacher and soccer coach at C.W. Ruckel Middle School in Niceville, was arrested Friday on a charge of lewd and lascivious conduct with a student by an authority figure.
The victim, who is now 17, told investigators Thursday she was an eighth-grader at the school when she and Hallmark started texting in August 2017, the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office said.
A year later, the pair then started ‘sexting’ when the student, then 15, began ninth grade — with Hallmark and the girl trading illicit photographs and talking about cuddling on Snapchat, an arrest report shows according to WEARTV.
But there’s more.
Performed various sex acts on each other
The teen also told investigators she and Hallmark performed sex acts on each other at the middle school when she helped the educator coach the soccer team after school, the report shows.
‘[The teen] explained the defendant and she would perform these acts in the classroom by tilting the classroom cameras away and leaning against the classroom door so no one could enter,’ according to the report obtained by the nypost.
The teen said she and Hallmark also performed various sex acts on each other at both of their homes, the arrest report shows.
A search of the teen’s phone backed up her claims and confirmed an ‘inappropriate relationship’ between her and Hallmark, which lasted until August 2020, authorities said.
Abuse of trust, power & authority
Hallmark was placed on administrative leave Thursday, one day before a warrant was issued for her arrest, sheriff’s officials said.
The district superintendent will recommend that Hallmark be suspended without pay as her criminal case proceeds, the Northwest Florida Daily News reported.
‘Okaloosa County teachers represent the highest standard of professionalism, ethics, and morality,’ Superintendent Marcus Chambers said in a written statement. ‘When an educator fails to live up to that high standard, we’re all impacted. Student safety and well-being is our highest priority, and we expect our employees’ conduct to be consistent with that priority.’
Hallmark, of Destin, is listed in jail records as Hayley Morgan Close. She remained held on $20,000 bond at the Okaloosa County Jail as of early Monday, online records show.
Not immediately clear is what led to the female educator betraying her position of trust, authority and abuse of power to sexually prey on her teen victim.
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