A Mid-Missouri high school teacher, Hailey Nichelle Clifton-Carmack, was taken into custody in Texas on sexual misconduct charges involving a student, awaiting her transfer back to Missouri for prosecution.
Clifton-Carmack, a 26-year-old math teacher at Laquey High School, faced a slew of charges including "second-degree statutory rape, sexual contact with a student, fourth-degree child molestation, and endangering the welfare of a child," as reported by MSN. She was reported to have fled to Texas around December 23 and got arrested without incident by the Garden Ridge Police Department on January 5, official sources shared on Facebook.
Police involvement escalated when a school resource officer was informed by a witness of a dubious sexual relationship between Clifton-Carmack and a student; this tip-off, later bolstered by physical evidence and messages detailing the relationship, led to an arrest warrant and subsequent capture, KSAT noted. The superintendent of the Laquey R5 School District, Kent Stoumbaugh, asserted that "Clifton-Carmack has 'not been in the district' since December 8," while addressing Clifton-Carmack's absence since early December.
The face of this case took a disturbing turn when it surfaced that the student's father was charged with "first-degree child endangerment" for purportedly permitting his offspring's engagement with Clifton-Carmack, as per KSAT. Accompanied by no signs of resistance, Clifton-Carmack currently remains in Comal County Jail till officials expedite her return to confront the charges laid upon her in Missouri.
