A 22-year-old substitute teacher at a D.C. charter school for at-risk youth pled not guilty to accusations of having oral sex with an 11th grade student on her first day at the school. Symone Greene was subbing at Options Public Charter School when she allegedly had the encounter with the 17-year-old football player behind a desk in the classroom during a pep rally. The footballer secretly recorded a part of the encounter and shared the video with five of his football teammates and a childhood friend.
The Washington Post reports the football player gave the teacher his cell phone number at the end of the school day. The two began a texting relationship that included the word “kinky” to describe the teacher. She responded back with “I don’t tell I show.” The student then returned to the classroom at 3:26pm and because of a pep rally he had to leave by 3:40. He then asked for sex acts to match the number on his jersey. That’s when the recorded act went down.
Over the weekend the two continued a texting relationship, which at one point Greene told the football player to “chill” before she got in trouble. “Oo. U gona get me in trouble. Chill. We gotta be slick with it,” the text message read. She also told the teen she was unable to have sex with him because “my body is taken for my boyfriend.” By this time, the video had gone viral with other students.
When school administrators learned of the incident they contacted the Police department and Child and Family Services Agency. The same day Greene was questioned by police, a text exchange between the teacher and an undercover police officer revealed she was “scared” of going to jail. She also attempted to persuade the teen to lie to police about the sex act.
Greene is charged with first-degree sexual abuse of a minor in a significant relationship. She entered a not guilty plea and will await the next court date.