Florida teacher, 28, is arrested over sick messages to 14-year-old student
A Florida middle school teacher has been arrested over sickening messages and photos sent to a student.
Oliver Fell, 28, has been accused of sending nude photos to a 14-year-old boy she taught at Haile Middle School.
She turned herself in on Monday after a warrant was issued charging her with lewd contact with a student by an authority figure and transmission of harmful material to a minor, reported WWSB.
The Manatee County Sheriff's Office said Fell started messaging the on Snapchat boy in December, and he reported her to the school in March after she sent him a photo of her breast.
According to court documents, Fell sent him three images including one of her in a bathing suit, one in a brown dress and and an image of a bare breast.
The school resource officer, Deputy Sadrac Augustin, confronted Fell about the images and she claimed someone was impersonating her.
'She denied the video of the breast being her. Oliver further explained that the two other photos were on her public Instagram account,' the documents said.
'It should be noted the Deputy Augustin didn't use the Snapchat application to navigate through the account and simply accepted her denial of the suspected lewd images.'
Police continued to investigate and obtained a search warrant that confirmed the Snapchat account that sent the images belonged to Fell.
Records show Fell and the victim became friends on Snapchat on December 10, and she deleted him on March 4, the same date she became aware of the investigation.
However, the documents note that the nude photo was not located on her account because Snapchat does not save images.
'[The victim] explained he originally obtained Oliver's Snapchat account from Oliver during school hours,' court documents said.
The teacher was in a group with several others for the purpose of communicating with each other to open a secure door within the school during school hours
The student claimed he started the private chat with his teacher during Christmas break and the messages started to escalate.
'[Fell] at some point stated, "I want to taste you' with a winking face emoji,"' the filings state.
The boy told police that he asked his teacher if she had ever sent nude photos, which she replied yes, and then he asked her to send him one which she did.
The boy's mother, Beverly Hernandez, told the local news station that school officials did not believe her son at first and suspended him while Fell remained on the job.
'Not only was I disappointed that a teacher that was put there to protect my child was grooming him,' she said. 'I'm more disappointed that they inflicted more trauma by calling him a liar.
'By him thinking he was doing the right thing and speaking up, they retaliated against him.'
Haile Middle School Principal Irene Nikitopoulos sent a letter to parents after Fell was arrested.
'It took several weeks of investigation to confirm the allegations of the illegal communications,' she said.
'Once law enforcement had sufficient confirmation, our school and district were informed and Ms. Fell was immediately reassigned to a position away from our school where she had no contact with students.'
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