APS middle school teacher arrested for alleged sexual relationships with students
Jun. 3—Sending nude photos and sexually explicit messages to students, supplying teenage girls with alcohol and subsequently getting a 15-year-old pregnant — those are the accusations being leveled against an Albuquerque Public Schools teacher who recently resigned.
Patrick Corr, 34, who formerly taught English at John Adams Middle School on the West Side, is charged with two counts of criminal sexual penetration of a minor and three counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. He was arrested by Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office deputies Monday evening.
Corr's attorney did not respond to a request for comment, and his family declined to comment.
"The conduct Patrick Corr is accused of is reprehensible," APS spokesman Martin Salazar said in a statement. "APS Police first began its investigation into an allegation against Mr. Corr in May 2024, and he was placed on leave that same month. He tendered his resignation on May 14, 2025."
Salazar added that John Adams is the only APS school Corr worked at, and he had been with the district since 2019.
In May 2024, John Adams teachers complained to the principal that they felt "extremely uncomfortable" after Corr laid his body across two female students upon returning to the school from a field trip to Urban Air, according to a criminal complaint filed in Metropolitan Court. Corr was placed on administrative leave and the school initiated an internal investigation at the end of the school year.
Three months after the field trip, the principal and a teacher were cleaning out Corr's old classroom and found a cabinet and boxes with notes from students where he was referred to as "hot" or "Daddy Corr," the complaint states. The criminal investigation handled by the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office's Special Victim's Unit began in August 2024.
A girl, who was not Corr's student, told deputies she met him in June 2021 while out at a bar and grill with her stepsister, according to the complaint. The girl was 15 at the time, though she said she initially told Corr she was 19.
Deputies said the girl told them Corr invited her and her stepsister to a party at his house, where the girl drank alcohol before having sex with Corr. The girl said when she told Corr she was 15, he responded by laughing and saying he "figured she was lying about her age," the complaint states.
The girl told deputies she realized she was pregnant soon after and told Corr through Snapchat, according to the complaint. She decided to get an abortion and, afterward, had sex with Corr a few weeks later "because she felt pressured."
On Nov. 21, 2024, BSCO executed a search warrant on Corr's Snapchat account and found he had messaged over 50 students, where he talked about his personal love life, alcohol and drugs, and allegedly solicited nudes from students, the complaint states. Days earlier, a deputy interviewed one of Corr's former students at University of New Mexico Hospital.
Deputies said the former student told them Corr asked her for her Snapchat during one of her final days of the school year in 2021, which she found "weird." The girl, who was 16 at the time, said Corr bought her and her cousin alcohol, and she had sex with him after drinking.
The girl told deputies that the next morning, Corr got her an emergency contraceptive pill and "made her take in front of him," according to the complaint.
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