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Sadie R. Pritchard, a 41-year-old associate principal at Evergreen High School, has been accused of having sex with a teenage student at the school. She is facing three counts of first-degree sexual misconduct with a minor.
According to reports, a student at Evergreen High School told police that Pritchard started following him on Instagram and sent him messages offering to assist him with his homework back in October 2017. The student said that the messages led to Pritchard sending nude photos. Both the photos and Pritchard’s Instagram have since been deleted.
The student said they started having sexual intercourse in December and it happened about three or four times over the course of about six weeks.
via The Columbian:
According to a probable cause affidavit, the victim told investigators on May 22 that they’d had “sexual intercourse with (the) vice principal, Sadie Pritchard, at Evergreen High School.”
The student said Pritchard started following them on Instagram around October 2017. She offered to help the student with homework, and then the contact turned flirtatious, leading to the exchange of nude photos, according to the affidavit. What followed were alleged sexual encounters during the school day in Pritchard’s office, starting around mid-December and lasting roughly six weeks. Other alleged instances happened in what was referred to in the affidavit as a testing room.
Pritchard allegedly gave the student upwards of $1,000 on a regular basis for several months. The student denied that the money was an exchange for sex or to keep them quiet. When asked what ended the relationship, the student said they thought about what was happening and became mad, so they told Pritchard it could no longer continue, according to the affidavit.
There also were emails found by the Evergreen Public Schools human resources director in which Pritchard would request the student be pulled from class and report to her office, as well as requests that teachers change the student’s grades to a fail or pass status in an effort to improve their GPA, according to the affidavit.
Pritchard is just the latest school official 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.
