A Missouri teacher has been charged with statutory rape after allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old student while another student was “watching,” and the boy's father also allegedly condoned the disturbing relationship. He is charged with a serious crime.
Hayley Clifton Carmack, 26, a math teacher at LaQuie High School, was arrested in Garden Ridge, Texas, on Friday after she was “suspected of fleeing from Missouri” to evade an arrest warrant, the report said. law enforcement.
Allegations of sexual misconduct by Clifton-Carmack first surfaced on December 7, 2023.
A fellow student reported the suspected illicit relationship to a school resource officer, who immediately contacted the Pulaski County Sheriff's Department, according to court documents.
The witness then met with law enforcement and showed him a photo of a classmate with a scar on his back.
The witness claimed that the wound was “inflicted after the confidential victim had sex with Haley” in the witness's “driveway” of his home.
The witness also claimed that the math teacher had been in trouble with school administrators in the past for getting “too close to students.”
According to court documents, Clifton Carmack, a recently divorced mother of two, wears “tight shirts or low-cut shirts” to show off her “headlights” and “shows off her camel toes.” It is said that she often wore tight leggings.
Witnesses told investigators that the victim was the reason they were “forced into divorce” and that “Hailey wanted a divorce because her husband just wanted to 'do something in the ass,'” court documents state. I made it.
Detectives questioned the teacher on December 8, 2023 after receiving the charges, but the teacher denied having any sexual relationship with the student.
Police seized her cell phone but could not access its contents until a warrant was issued.
After a warrant was issued to access the phone on Dec. 22, police discovered text messages indicating there was a relationship between the 16-year-old student and the educator, according to court documents.
Clifton-Carmack left Missouri around Dec. 23 to visit family in Texas.
Police interviewed “people who lived at Haley's previous residence” in Missouri on January 3, 2024, and they said Haley had “moved to Texas to be with family” and “went to Texas.” I don't know if that's the case,” he said. To go back. ”
A warrant for the teacher's arrest was issued soon after.
After her arrest in Texas on Friday, she was charged with first-degree endangering the welfare of a child, second-degree statutory rape, sexual contact with a student, and fourth-degree child molestation. Ta. Her bail was set at $250,000, according to court records.
She is currently awaiting extradition from the Comal County Jail to Missouri.
The district's superintendent, Kent Stombaugh, said in a statement provided to the newspaper that Clifton Carmack had not been on school grounds since the allegations first came to light. ABC17.
“The alleged misconduct is unacceptable and does not meet the professional standards of district employees. Upon becoming aware of this situation, the district took immediate action,” Stombaugh wrote.
“The employee has not been in the District since December 8, 2023 and is not expected to return.”
Ms. Stombaugh said Ms. Clifton-Carmack had been working at the school for about a year and a half and that the job was her first teaching job.
In a shocking development, new charges have been filed against the boy's father, who is said to have disclosed to others that he knew about his son's illicit relationship with a teacher.
Mark Clayton was arrested Thursday on a charge of endangering the welfare of a child.
On Wednesday, a second witness said she told the teen's father of the alleged cheating, but the father responded by saying that Clifton-Carmack and his 16-year-old son had “sexualized sexual relations,” according to court documents. He reportedly replied that he knew they were in a relationship.
The father also allegedly stated that he knew that his son and the math teacher were having sex during class while “watching” other students.
“He knew about the relationship between his minor child and the 26-year-old teacher, but instead of reporting that information, he continued to cover for them and allowed the relationship to continue,” Clayton said, adding, “Haley did not come to her home. “and met the victim while the victim was present,'' the prosecutor said.
When the witness told Clayton he was coming forward with information, Clayton responded that his son and Clifton-Carmack were “trying to do it behind my back, so I might as well leave it at that.”
He also told witnesses he would lie for his son's sake if necessary.
The boy's father is currently being held on $50,000 bail.
