Middle school teacher lured student to ‘mansion’ and assaulted them, TX cops say
After school let out for the summer, a middle school teacher contacted a student through Snapchat and lured them to a “mansion” to sexually assault them, Texas prosecutors said.
Now, a Nacogdoches County judge gave 26-year-old Annaleigh Andrews a 2-year prison sentence on April 8, the district attorney’s office said in a news release. She pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual assault of a child and three counts of online solicitation of a minor on Aug. 22, officials said.
Andrews worked as a reading interventionist at McMichael Middle School in Nacogdoches when she contacted the student through Snapchat during summer break after the 2022-2023 school year, the Nacogdoches County District Attorney’s Office said.
McClatchy News reached out to the school district but did not immediately receive a response. Andrews’ attorney information was not available.
She asked the child, whose age was not shared by prosecutors, to meet her at a predetermined location, then took them to what the child described as a “mansion,” officials said. She sexually assaulted the child on multiple occasions both at the residence and at a park, according to prosecutors.
Andrews also gave the child marijuana, according to the news release.
The teacher convinced the child to lie to their mother about their whereabouts, prosecutors said, and Andrews corroborated the lies by telling the child’s mother they were working on a project.
The child’s mother said during the sentencing hearing that the sexual assault has had “devastating consequences” on the student, according to prosecutors.
“Her once silly, school-loving, band kid is now a recluse who is too embarrassed to attend school or even socialize with the child’s friends,” according to the news release.
Andrews received the minimum sentence, according to prosecutors. During sentencing, the judge said they would have preferred to sentence her to probation, but Texas law does not allow probation when a person is convicted of sexual assault of a child, prosecutors said.
The district attorney’s office said it disagrees with the sentence.
Andrews was allowed to return home for 30 days before she is required to report for her prison sentence, according to the news release.
Nacogdoches is about a 165-mile drive southeast from Dallas.
This story was originally published April 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM with the headline "Middle school teacher lured student to ‘mansion’ and assaulted them, TX cops say."
