Tampa Bay Teacher Arrested For Explicit Texts To Student
There has been yet another case of a Tampa Bay area teacher being arrested for inappropriate behavior with a student.
According to Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, a teacher at the K-8 Learning Gate Community School in Lutz was arrested on Thursday.
Scott Robert Wilson, 36, a teacher at the school, was charged with distributing obscene material to a minor and booked into Orient Road Jail. The allegation is that he sent explicit texts to a 14-year-old student this summer.
The sexually explicit messages were exchanged via Snapchat from May to July, and were found on the teen’s cell phone by her mother on Wednesday. The mother promptly contacted the sheriffs office and reported it. When questioned by police the 36 year old Wilson admitted that he had sent the text to the student, despite the students young age.
Learning Gate Community School is touted as “the first environmentally-focused charter school in the state of Florida,” where students maintain an organic garden and learn in award-winning “green” classrooms. Its located at at 16215 Hanna Road, near Nebraska and Bearss Avenues, on a 27 acre woodland preserve.
The teen who has not yet been identified by authorities, has been pulled from from the charter school. Detectives do believe this is an isolated incident, but ask anyone with additional information about this case to call the Sheriff’s Office at (813) 247-8200.
Wilson is being held in the county jail in lieu of $2,000 bail.
For Wilson’s mug shot go HERE: