Alicia Gray, 28, teacher at Mary G. Montgomery High School, Mobile County Public Schools, Mobile, Alabama, 'sexual relationship with a 14-year-old freshman" AL.com: Teacher at Semmes high school accused of an inappropriate relationship with a student (Feb 18 2013) A teacher at Mary G. Montgomery High School has been placed on paid administrative leave while the Mobile County Sheriff's Office investigates allegations of an inappropriate relationship between her and a student ... The teacher's name and the name of her alleged victim have not been released ... There is no information on how long the alleged abuse may have gone on or the age or gender of the alleged victim. Fox 10 TV: MGM teacher turns herself in to authorities (Feb 25 2013) Alicia Gray, 28, surrendered at Mobile County Metro Jail just after 3:30 p.m., Monday, February 25. The move comes one week after allegations surfaced that Gray, a math teacher at MGM, was having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old freshman. Tags:
NBC News: MGM Teacher Turns Herself In, Accused of Sexual Relationship with a Student (Feb 25 2013) A teacher at Mary G. Montgomery High School turned herself in Monday, accused of having a sexual relationship with a student. Alicia Gray is charged with two counts of second degree sodomy, sexual abuse and school employee sexual contact with a student under age 19.
Local 15 TV: MGM Teacher Turns Herself In, Accused of Sexual Relationship with a Student (Feb 25 2013) Alicia Gray is charged with two counts of second degree sodomy, sexual abuse and school employee sexual contact with a student under age 19. Deputies executed a search warrant on Gray's home last week and seized her cellphone.
WKRG: MGM Teacher Turns Herself in After Being Accused of Sexual Relations with Student (Feb 25 2013) Police say Alicia Gray turned herself in Monday around 3:30 p.m to Mobile County Metro Jail. Officials at the Sheriff's Office say they got a call from school administrators last week about the situation. Gray has been on paid administrative leave since last week.
AL.com: Semmes high school teacher turns herself in as investigation into alleged student-teacher relationship continues (updated) (Feb 25 2013) Alicia Gray, 28, has been charged with two counts of second-degree sodomy, one count of second-degree sexual abuse and one count of being a school employee who had sexual contact with a student under the age of 19 ... A profile which has since been taken off the MGMHS website shows Gray has worked at MGMHS for at least six years. She taught algebra, math 9 and honors pre-calculus and described herself as "highly qualified in mathematics." She graduated from MGMHS about 10 years ago. Outside of school, she taught a dance class to young children at a local academy, although her employer noted there had not been any problems with her at the school.
AL.com: Superintendent on teacher arrest: We step back and let law enforcement handle it (Feb 25 2013) When something comes up like that, we fully cooperate with law enforcement," [Superintendent Martha] Peek said after a school board meeting tonight. "that's where we are. We are working on it with law enforcement." Peek said she doesn't know much about the case. As soon as school officials learned of the allegations, they turned it over to the Mobile County Sheriff's Office. As is standard, the school system has suspended the teacher with pay. "We just step back and let them handle it," Peek said.
Local 15 TV: Family May Sue Over Teacher Sex Allegations (Feb 26 2013) The family of a 14-year-old student who had an alleged sexual relationship with a female high school teacher is considering bringing a lawsuit. “Nothing’s off the table from a civil standpoint,” family attorney David Greene told Local 15 ... “[The victim] may be six feet tall, a big young man, but he’s a child,” Greene said. “This woman allegedly took advantage of him while in a position of authority.”
WKRG: Victim's Attorney: 'Teacher-Student Relationship Not Mutual' (Feb 26 2013) Authorities say the victim was a fourteen-year-old student at Mary G. Montgomery. They believe the relationship had been going on for some time. The victim's family has hired attorney David Greene, who says the relationship was not mutual. "He's still a young man, and he's not ready for something like that," said Greene. "Certainly when someone in the position of authority takes advantage of him, and he was preyed upon, he was sought after singled out, and taken advantage of."
Weekly Vice: Alicia Gray - Teacher - Charged With Having Sex With 14-Year-Old Student (Feb 26 2013) Alicia Gray, a 28-year-old math teacher at Mary G. Montgomery High School, has been jailed after she allegedly had sex with a 14-year-old student. According to the Mobile County Sheriff's office, an investigation was launched on February 18 after school officials advised detectives that an inappropriate sexual relationship had developed between Gray and a 14-year-old student.
NBC News: Family May Sue Over Teacher Sex Allegations (Feb 27 2013) The family of a 14-year-old student who had an alleged sexual relationship with a female high school teacher is considering bringing a lawsuit. “Nothing’s off the table from a civil standpoint,” family attorney David Greene told Local 15 ... It’s unknown at this time exactly who the family would sue. “It appears there’s at least one or two people that are responsible,” Greene said. “We’ll sort of leave it at that.”
UK Daily Mail: Married math teacher, 28, turns herself in for alleged affair and sexual relations with 14-year-old male student (with her husband by her side) (Feb 27 2013) A married math teacher, 28, was arrested on Monday after she turned herself for an alleged affair with a 14-year-old male student. Alicia Gray, of Mobile, Alabama, was accompanied by her husband and attorney when she surrendered herself to authorities at Mobile County Metro Jail, after a warrant had been issued for her arrest and an investigation into the relationship was launched. Gray was booked into jail and charged with two counts of second-degree sodomy, one count of second-degree sexual abuse and one count of school employee having sexual relations with a student under the age of 19. The teacher, who worked at MGM High School in Mobile, was released two hours later after posting bail, but is due back in court in March.
Local 15 TV: 'Intense' Sexual Affair Described in Court Documents (Feb 28 2013) Hall also claimed the boy told investigators his relationship with Gray "intensified" resulting in an exchange of oral sex between the two taking place, "near or at the victim's residence." In what may be an attempt to prove an effort to cover one's tracks, the boy also told investigators Gray "took several nude pictures and transmitted those pictures to one another via their cell phones through Snap Chat application." According to news reports, Snap Chat is a mobile phone application commonly used by teens to send inappropriate pictures because once the recipient opens the images they're automatically erased. The affidavit goes further pointing to a meeting between Gray and MGM Principal Wade Whitney and counselor Rachel Graham alleging Gray admitted deleting. "Alicia Gray [t]old Whitney and Graham that she had since deleted both her and <the teen's> messages and that she was able to delete <the teen's> messages because she had his password and login information. The statements were strong enough for investigators, A Mobile County District Court Judge on February 20 granted warrant to search Gray's home. The seized several flash drives, 2 digital cameras and a cell phone ... [six days after the search] Mobile County Circuit Court Judge Ben Brooks granted a prosecution request to photograph Gray from the waste down to "corroborate the report of <the teen> and aid in this investigation."
AL.com: Mobile County grand jury indicts Mary Montgomery teacher accused of having sex with student (Apr 14 2013) A Mobile County grand jury has indicted Mary G. Montgomery High School math teacher Alicia Gray on charges of first-degree sodomy, sexual abuse and being a school employee who engaged in a sex act with a student younger than 19. The most serious charge, sodomy, is a Class A felony punishable by 10 years to life in prison. The other felony charge is punishable by two to 20 years in prison, and the sexual abuse charge is a misdemeanor ... Citing an affidavit that since has been sealed, NBC-15 reported that the 14-year-old student told investigators that the relationship began around New Year’s Day and intensified, ultimately leading to oral sex near the student’s home.
AL.com: Former Mobile County teacher pleads guilty to sex-abuse with student, surrenders teaching certificate (Jan 10 2014) A former Mobile County high school teacher on Friday pleaded guilty to having sex with a student, and was sentenced to immediately serve jail time and surrender her teaching certificate. Alicia Gray, 28, accepted a plea deal by prosecutors in Circuit Court Judge Michael Youngpeter's courtroom and was convicted of engaging in a sexual act or deviant sexual intercourse with a student under 19 years old. Youngpeter sentenced Gray to a five-year split sentence, with six months served and five years probation. As a condition of the probation, Gray will no longer be allowed to be employed with minors, and was required to surrender her teaching certificate to the Alabama Department of Education at once.
