A Florida teacher was arrested on felony charges this weekend after she was caught with her pants down having sex with a 16-year-old foreign exchange student.
Amie Neely, 38, was taken into custody on Sunday, police told South Florida's WPTV, after her husband tracked her location using the GPS on her phone and found her getting it on with the teenager in a nearby parking lot.Neighbors reported the incident to the police after the teen showed up at a nearby home later that day and said he'd been kicked out of the house "because he had sex with Amie."The student said he and Neely had slept together several times "during their affair" after initially exchanging text messages "referencing sexual connotations," according to the police report obtained by local media outlets, including in her bedroom when her husband wasn't home.The morning her husband found them, the student said, he and Neely had driven to a parking lot near her home where he'd gotten in the backseat and put a condom on before she joined him in the back of the car.Her husband had followed them using an app that pinpointed his wife's location using the GPS information on her phone, and discovered them in the act around 10 a.m. on Saturday.Neely denied having multiple sexual encounters with the student, reportedly telling police the boy had repeatedly pressured her to have sex with him and that due to her "midlife crisis issues" she thought he would stop asking if she slept with him once.A representative for the Community Christian Academy in Stuart, Fla., where Neely was a teacher prior to the incident, told the Daily News on Wednesday that she is no longer employed by the school.“Community Christian Academy is aware of a legal situation involving a teacher and we are cooperating with law enforcement officials who are dealing with this as an ongoing investigation," Norma Hammond, administrative director for the school, told WPTV in the wake of Neely's arrest. “For that reason we have no further comment at this time. We will be issuing a more detailed statement after meeting with school board and church leadership.”Parents at the school expressed surprise at the news, but also offered sympathy for Neely's situation."But you know what? She is a human being," parent Terri Gillam told WPBF 25 News. "And we all are vulnerable at different times in our life. You know, and that's sad. It's sad, because evidently, low self-esteem, you never know what goes on in people's homes. It's sad. And that's what I feel like, and that's what I pray for -- for her.""I was shocked, but it goes on everywhere," Kelly Eldridge, another parent, told the TV station. "That's sad."Meanwhile, the Port St. Lucie Police Department had harsh words for the former educator.“A teacher who does this breaches the public trust, shows a complete lack of ethics and good judgment and has no appreciation of appropriate boundaries,” police spokesman Master Sgt. Frank Sabol told WPTV.Neely was reportedly released from jail on Sunday on $15,000 bail.A request for comment from the police department was not immediately returned.
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