An award-winning elementary school teacher in Washington state is facing child rape charges following allegations that she sexually abused a former student.
Darcy Smith, 41, is accused of having sex with the boy when he was just 14 years old and living with her, her husband and her children at their home in Renton.
The alleged victim, who is now 19 years old, first reported the allegations to the King County Sheriff’s Office last May.
Smith has been on administrative leave since August, when her employer, the Highline School District, was informed of the boy’s claims.
He told detectives that he and Smith started having sex when he was in the 8th grade and the relationship continued until he moved out of her home at 18.
The boy had moved in with Smith and her family when he was 12 years old and a pupil in her 6th grade class, reports Seattle PI.
After breaking his collarbone, Smith had taken him to the hospital and soon after that he started living at her house which was closer to the doctors than his own home.
The unusual arrangement had the blessing of the boy’s mother who didn’t speak English and though Smith would be a good influence on her son whose brother was in a gang.
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