Jeri Ann Griffin, a 41-year-old Oklahoma teacher’s aide, has been accused of giving students alcohol and having sex with one of them.
Griffin, who has resigned from her job as a teacher’s assistant for Covington-Douglas Public Schools, was arrested and released on bond. She was arrested for second-degree rape, sodomy, making lewd or indecent proposals to a child under 16 and furnishing alcohol to a minor.
In addition to the 18-year-old boy that she had sex with, Griffin is accused of attempting to kiss a 15-year-old teen as well.
via Enid News and Eagle:
The teen told authorities that a few months ago, he was at Griffin’s house with her husband, helping them move to another house when he was given alcohol. Thehe teen said he drank 10 to 15 beers that night at Griffin’s home, along with a 15-year-old freshman.The teen said Griffin had also been flirting with him over Snapchat that same night, according to court documents. He told authorities that he later met Griffin at the other house and the two had sex.
Griffin asked the teen not to tell her husband, but said they should do it again. The teenager told authorities there were several other times when Griffin performed oral sex on him and they once made out in a closet. He said this wasn’t the only time he had drank alcohol at the couple’s house. He claimed he drank alcohol at the couple’s house between seven and ten times.
A 15-year-old boy who had also told police he was invited to drink at the couple’s house said Griffin tried to kiss him multiple times; however, he said that he told her to stop. The 15-year-old even said Griffin messaged him over Snapchat, asking if they could hang out again. When he told Griffin he had a girlfriend, Griffin allegedly said that his girlfriend could share him and that his girlfriend didn’t have to know.
Griffin is just the latest teacher to be charged for an alleged relationship with a teenager student. 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.
34-year-old Miranda Nicole Pauley was charged with similar crimes, 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. 27-year-old Brittany Zamora from Arizona was arrested on similar charges. Keri Hoffman, 35, was also arrested for an alleged relationship with a student. More recently, 29-year-old Tiffany Ranweiler-Oblander and 33-year-old Maren Oates were arrested on similar charges.
