A SCHOOLTEACHER has been accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy who reportedly struggled to fit in with classmates – over the course of several months.
Married mum-of-one Sarah Jacas, 32, allegedly molested and raped the child over multiple months in her own classroom when he started eating lunch with her.
Sick Jacas also allegedly created an Instagram account to contact the student at the school in Florida.
The middle school teacher was arrested and charged with battery, molestation and statutory rape.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office arrested Jacas earlier this week on June 23, according to People.
The alleged victim, now 16, spoke with police deputies on June 10, alleging that maths teacher Jacas had sexually abused him in 2023.
At the time, the then-14-year-old was a pupil at Corner Lake Middle School.
Jacas and the alleged victim reportedly started having lunch together in her classroom at the start of the 2022-23 school year.
He is understood to have started joining her for meals “because he had issues fitting in and associating with the right crowd”, according to police reports.
The alleged victim told cops he grew closer to Jacas during their shared lunches.
But he claimed that over time she allegedly began to “isolate” him from other students.
He also said that the two began to express physical affection for each other.
Initially they would engage in chaste hugs and kisses on the cheek – but this soon became what the affidavit alleges was molestation.
The alleged victim also claimed the two would text outside of school hours.
The boy’s mum caught them exchanging messages at 1am one night.
The horrified parent said the fact that the pair were allegedly exchanging messages was “abnormal”.
The educator allegedly set up a fake Instagram account to send sleazy messages.
She is said to have engaged in “dirty talk” during these exchanges.
In one alleged instance, she reportedly told the teen: “I just had sex with my husband and it wasn’t the best… I imagined it was you.”
The alleged victim claimed that one week before Spring Break 2023, Jacas covered the windows of her classroom with curtains and had sexual intercourse with him.
Jacas allegedly sexually abused the boy each day before Spring Break.
When the holidays eventually started, Jacas’ husband learned about his wife’s alleged behavior, the affidavit said.
Her shocked husband then allegedly posed as Jacas and contacted the teenage boy on Jacas’ secret social media account.
Deputy Sheriff Kyle Cole said in the report: “[Jacas] called [the alleged victim] from an unknown number and told [the alleged victim] her husband found out about their relationship and for [the alleged victim] to ‘lay low’ because her husband [was angry]”.
The alleged victim told cops that in the last weeks of the school year, Jacas did not return to work.
Then on June 16, the alleged victim allegedly called Jacas on the phone, in the presence of police.
Jacas has not entered a plea yet.
She was arrested on June 23 and appeared in court the next day.
Two days later, she walked free from Orange County Detention Facility after posting bail.
Following her arrest, the principal of Corner Lake Middle School told parents there was an “ongoing investigation” and confirmed Jacas would “not be returning to campus”.
