Female Spanish instructor, 37, is charged with raping scholar,14
A North Carolina Spanish teacher has been accused of raping a 14-year-old student.
Heydi Monroy, 37, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with statutory rape and other crimes following a probe by Wellcome Middle School officials in Greenville.
A school resource officer reportedly launched an investigation following a report by another employee.
According to court documents seen by WITN, the crimes happened on April 5th.
Pitt County Schools Public Information Officer said Monroy, who is originally from Colombia, is no longer an employee at the middle school.
Spanish teacher Heydi Monroy, 37, has been accused of raping a 14-year-old student
Monroy had been working at the school since August 2022.
She is being held without bond as of Wednesday.
It comes as dozens of female teachers have been arrested this year across the nation for sex crimes involving students – as the seeming number of ‘cougars in the classroom’ continues to grow.
A long line of female teachers allegedly involved with youngsters across the country dominates headlines.
DailyMail.com discovered that 25 female teachers had been arrested in 16 states in only the last 12 months – and it is feared to be merely the tip of the iceberg as there appears to be no centralized data collection to track this disturbing trend.
Monroy, originally from Colombia, had been working at the school since August 2022
Pitt County Schools Public Information Officer said Monroy is no longer an employee at Wellcome Middle School in Greenville
In April, married New Jersey teacher Jessica Sawicki, 37, was arrested after cops found her half-naked in the back seat of a teen’s car at a wildlife center. The mother-of-two allegedly admitted to police she and the student had ‘unprotected’ sex at least five times.
In Nebraska, 45-year-old Erin Ward was arrested after being caught naked in the backseat with a teen boy. The substitute teacher is married to a Department of Defense official and was quickly arrested at the scene by police.
Many of the accused female teachers charged in the last year are married and one was even named teacher of the year.
The teachers are enticing students with sexually-charged texts, nude photos and videos, before and during physical encounters, police say.
Between 2017 and 2022, at least 1,895 teachers have had unfavorable action taken against their credentials by state education licensing boards for sexual misconduct and inappropriate relationships that may not be of a sexual nature, according to the nonprofit National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification.
That figure is an underestimation since many states do not provide the reason why a teacher’s credentials was suspended or revoked.
