Texas Teacher's Aid Charged with Sexually Assaulting a Student!
A Houston woman has a lot of explaining to do after it was revealed that she had a sexually relationship with a student. The woman, identified as 51-year-old Tedria Fluellen was a teacher's aid in the Houston Independent School District where the assault occurred.
According to court documents obtained by KHOU, "the victim said the abuse started in 2018 when he was 16. The victim said he met Fluellen when he was attending Worthing High School. He also attended the same church with Fluellen. He told investigators he would sometimes go to Fluellen's house to do things and help her get things out of her storage unit. He said he'd known her for 2 to 3 years.
The victim told investigators that more than a year ago, Fluellen allegedly told him, "You don't have to be gay," before making a sexual advancement.
The victim said he was at Fluellen's home when she told him to make sexual contact with her. The victim said Fluellen then performed oral sex on him. The victim said Fluellen would send him sexually explicit text messages and called him "my secret lover."
The court document states the victim and the defendant had sex four times: at the victim's home, Fluellen's public storage unit, her home, and at Worthing High School between 7 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. in the morning, in the defendant's vehicle."
In another instance Fluellen allegedly assaulted the victim while his grandmother was out of town and he was left in the care of another family member. Fluellen "fixed his cousin a drink with champagne and told the [victim] 'it's going to knock him out,'" per court documents. The drink was said to have been a mix of Sprite, Coca Cola, champagne, and some medication, according to the victim.
As a birthday gift, Fluellen gave the victim a Metro PCS cellphone on which she sent explicit text messages. The boy's grandmother felt that something was wrong with him so, like any other parent or guardian, she checked his phone and was shocked at what she found. She says she found sexually graphic text messages between her grandson and Fluellen which prompted her immediately to contact 911 and the Huston Police.
When investigators spoke with Fluellen, she said she told the victim that this "not the lifestyle" and said that another student was trying to "turn him out." She said the victim had started calling her "momma." She also admitted to police she had a public storage unit located in Pasadena. When she was confronted about the cellphone she allegedly gave to the victim, and the sexually explicit texts between them, she told authorities the texts should have gone to her boyfriend. She told authorities she had given the victim a cellphone in August and that the phone was on her account. When asked by investigators if she'd had sex with the victim, Fluellen "stalled" before stating she'd had sex with the victim in her storage unit, according to court documents.
Fluellen gave the authorities written consent to search her cellphone and they found all of the evidence they needed to charge her with the sexual assault of a minor.
Fluellen went before a judge late Friday night where her bond was set at $40,000. As of this writing, she remains in Harris County jail.
This is sick!
