A Christian school kindergarten teacher has admitted having s£x with a female student, including on school grounds, class trips and even sleepovers at the teen girl’s house.
Torrie Lemon, now 24, pleaded guilty in Indiana Thursday, May 14, to one count of child seduction as a Level 5 felony and was sentenced to 40 days in jail to be followed by nearly four years’ probation.
The now-fired Colonial Christian School teacher, who had already spent a month in jail awaiting trial, is set to be separately sentenced Friday, May 15, to two other child seduction charges in the same case filed in a neighboring county in suburban Indianapolis.
The relationship was exposed on an April school trip to South Carolina when another girl saw messages on the teen’s phone in which the teacher discussed “climaxing” and “laying in bed” with the then-17-year-old student, according to court documents.
“I love you more than I can describe. I love my girl,” Lemon also texted the girl. “Thank you for an amazing night and morning.”
The teacher was immediately sent home from the school trip, and confessed to cops.
“I was having an inappropriate relationship with a student from our school,” she told investigators.
The girl, meanwhile, told officers that she had struck up a friendship with the teacher, which developed when they started chatting about their attraction to women.
The girl said she and Lemon “wanted it to just be a friendship” as it “went against their beliefs as Christians,” according to court documents.
The pair said they had s£x at the teacher’s apartment, which is on school grounds.
Lemon was also allowed to sleep over at the girl’s home, where they shared a pull-out couch in the basement and the girl started asking her parents about the age of consent, which is 16 in Indiana.
The girl’s dad said he knew his daughter “kissed, hugged and cuddled” the teacher, but didn’t report it as he did not want Lemon to lose her job, the court documents said.
Lemon also told investigators that the victim’s mother had suspected “there was more to their relationship” than friendship.