Gina Murry, a 32-year-old female teacher at an East Los Angeles high school, has been accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old student. Felony charges were filed against Murry on Monday, September 24.
According to sheriff’s department jail records, she was arrested on September 5 and was released the same day on $250,000 bail.
Murry, a teacher who taught at the East Los Angeles Renaissance Academy at Esteban E. Torres High School, is facing six counts of unlawful sexual intercourse and four counts each of committing a lewd act on a child, oral copulation of a person under 16 and sexual penetration by a foreign object.
She is set to be arraigned on Wednesday, September 26. If convicted of all charges, Murry faces up to 17 years in California state prison.
via NBC:
Prosecutors allege Murry assaulted the boy during a two-month period that began in May. If convicted as charged, she could be sentenced to a maximum of 17 years in prison.
Murry was “reassigned from the school” and parents were notified, according to the Los Angeles Unified School District. Further detail on the defendant’s employment history or the nature of her reassignment was not immediately available.
“The safety and well-being of our students remains our top priority,” an LAUSD statement says. “These allegations are disturbing and undermine our continuing efforts to provide a secure learning environment for all of our students.”
Murry is just the latest teacher to be charged for inappropriate conduct. 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. A woman named Kayla Sprinkles was arrested in North Carolina for similar sexual crimes.
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.
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. Similarly, 29-year-old Tiffany Ranweiler-Oblander and 33-year-old Maren Oates were arrested on similar charges.
Most recently, 29-year-old Haylie Smart and 25-year-old Alaina Ferguson were charged with similar crimes.
