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Former Pflugerville High School employee sent sexual messages to student, police say

A former Pflugerville High School employee was charged in connection to sending sexually explicit social media messages to a male student, police said. Marissa Juarez, 27, was charged with online solicitation of a minor, a third-degree felony. It is punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Juarez was an administrative assistant at the school, according to an arrest affidavit released on Tuesday. Her last day of work at the school was April 28, said Tamra Spence, a district spokeswoman. Spence would not say whether Juarez had been terminated or had resigned. She had worked at the district since August 2024, Spence said. Pflugerville police began investigating after a school district sergeant saw Juarez and the male student on a security camera sharing a hug and a kiss in a school parking lot, according to an arrest affidavit released on Tuesday. What is criminally negligent homicide? Texas man guilty in fatal high school stabbing The male student told police that the kiss seen on the security camera was the first one he and Juarez had ever shared and that he never communicated with her on social media, the affidavit said. He later told police he had shared one message with Juarez on Instagram about getting her a hoodie. When police interviewed the student and his mother the next day, his mother showed the investigator 55 screenshots of sexually explicit messages on Snapchat between the student and Juarez, the affidavit said. Some of the messages discussed a plan for them to have sex at the student's home while his mother was on vacation. In an interview with police, Juarez denied knowing about the Snapchat account and also denied any online communication with the male student, the affidavit said. Juarez, however, sent several messages to the male student "with photos and videos of her face which are plainly seen," according to the document. It said Jurarez also denied kissing the male student and said she didn't text or talk to him. This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Ex-Texas school employee charged with online solicitation of a minor