Posted on 06/05/2007 4:45:46 AM PDT by jasoncann
OMAHA - Fremont police were searching Thursday for a former teacher at an Omaha school who is accused of having a two-year sexual relationship with a boy who was 15 when the relationship began.
An arrest warrant issued this week charges Brandy Reynolds, 24, of Fremont with first-degree sexual assault, a Class II felony punishable by one to 50 years in prison. She's accused of having multiple encounters involving sexual penetration with the boy between December 2004 and May 2006, according to an affidavit filed in Dodge County Court.
Fremont detective Joyce Henke said the boy, now 17, was a student at Omaha Baptist Academy, where Reynolds taught. She said the assaults occurred in Reynolds' apartment in Fremont and one other nonresidential location.
Henke said it's believed Reynolds has left town.
A complaint was filed with police April 28, after the boy's family members contacted the state Health and Human Services System. The boy is from the Fremont area, Henke said.
Omaha Baptist Academy, which has about 30 students, is affiliated with Westwood Heights Baptist Church. Pastor Ken Largent said Reynolds was an elementary teacher at the school from 2004 to 2006. She did not teach there this past academic year.
The church's attorney, Jerry Rauterkus, said Reynolds quit her teaching job on her own and that the allegations against her were not known by the church leadership until recently.
“This came as a shock to them as it did to everybody else in the Fremont community,” Rauterkus said. “She left, and they haven't heard from her since May of 2006.”
According to the affidavit, the boy's parents told Henke that they found out about the relationship from their pastor, Adam Love. Reynolds confided to Love that she and the boy had a relationship.
Love, pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in Fremont, told The Associated Press that Reynolds is a friend. He declined to say whether he knew her whereabouts.
“We're in contact with the families and offer them support, and we care for those involved,” Love said, declining further comment.
An unidentified witness told police that Reynolds indicated to her that she wasn't certain how old the boy was at the time of the sexual relationship. But Reynolds said she believed the boy was 14 or 15, the affidavit said.
It is illegal in Nebraska for a person 19 or older to have sexual contact with a person under 16.
If she left town before she was arrested, as the article says, how is there a booking photo of her?...BTW..she looks like she has a lot of miles on her for 24....34 is more like it..
I think with a hair-stylist, make-up artist, and fashion consultant she could move into the not guilty category.
(However she does have a serious case of “insane eyes”.)
"We're not worthy, we're not worthy...."
She appears to be approximately 6 foot tall. Show the legs! lol
One Hit Wonder from the 70's..fits, eh?
Needs a bit of eyebrow work if she wants an acquittal.
Non mugshot photo needed for the jury.
A possible not guilty
Thanks...BTW..nice to know you have more editorial integrity than the NY Times..(G)
A couple of things about the picture. First, as someone else said, how do they have a picture if she wasn’t actually arrested? Is there a previous arrest?
Second, the marks on the left seem to be centimeters, and the right inches. (10 marks on the left cover about 4 on the right). BUT, 70 is small. So I’m betting it’s 270 centimeters, or 67 inches. That’s 5’7”, not almost 6 feet.
I wonder if she got arrested once for being drunk. She looks a little drunk in that picture.
I’ll bet with a good stylists and a good nights sleep she would be innocent.
You know, there’s the germ of an idea for a reality TV show in that comment..a cross between “Extreme Makeover” “Queen for a Day” and “Oprah”
See #8
That has not hindered Hillary.
She don’t need no fixin up, I’d hit it just like that.
I agree with another poster that the boy would have been worshipped as the King MacDaddy back in my day.
I swear.....you can't make this stuff up!
She sure looks guilty in that shot.
GUILTY!!!
"The call on the field is 'Innocent'."
Billie Jean is not my lover
He's just a boy who says that I am the one...
Yeccch.
She looks like a teacher I knew about 30 years ago (not in my school). I won’t say much more except... Not guilty. Trust me, not guilty.
Probable cause...
Holy cow!!! How did I miss this one? I’m from Fremont and I think I knew her back in the day.
“She appears to be approximately 6 foot tall. Show the legs! lol”
She 5’5”, that size chart is in centimeter and inches. Put the bong down and pick up a ruler!
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