At a trial this week, prosecutors in New Orleans say that a high school teacher used a fake Facebook account to arrange sexual trysts, including threesomes, with another teacher and at least one high school student.
Prosecutors charge that Destrehan High School teacher Shelly Dufresne, 34, began a sexual relationship with a player on the school’s football team when he was a 16-year-old student in her English class. The teacher is also accused of escalating the relationship to a threesome with another teacher, 26-year-old Rachel Respess, the New York Post reports.
The now 19-year-old student, whose name has been withheld to protect his privacy, said during the trial that Dufresne approached him in August of 2014. Their relationship quickly went from kissing in the classroom to sexual encounters in the woman’s car.
Investigators say that Dufresne used a fake Facebook account under the name “Madison Mexicano” to arrange meetings with the student. The Facebook account featured an image of the cartoon character Speedy Gonzalez as its profile photo and included the phrase, “I love Mexican boys.” Prosecutors say that phrase was a reference to the student with whom she was involved. The teen testified to being uncomfortable with the phrase because he is half Caucasian.
Dufresne is also accused of using the Facebook account to message the boy about where to meet.
“We had sex in multiple spots: the daiquiri shop in Metairie, off of Carriage Lane (in Destrehan) in a parking lot by some apartments,” the teen said according to the Times-Picayune. “We also had sex in her house in Montz. We had sex right off of Brandon Hall (Drive, also in Destrehan), they have another parking lot. We had sex at (a friend’s) house in the shed in the back house.”
The teen continued to testify that as their relationship evolved, Destrehan introduced him to the second teacher, Rachel Respess. The teen then said that soon they were all having sex together at Respess’s apartment.
“All three of us were in bed together. We all started having sex,” he said at trial.
To prove his experience to his friends, the teen admitted to taking cell phone video of the women as they slept after he had sex with them.
“It was kind of like proof,” the teen said of the video. “I told them about it, but they didn’t believe me.”
The relationship was exposed in October of 2014 after school officials caught wind of the rumors spreading throughout the school and then called police in to investigate.
The teachers’ attorneys insist that the teen should himself be charged with a crime for taking the video without permission.
Dufresne pleaded not guilty to two counts of carnal knowledge of a juvenile. Her trial continues this week and, if convicted, she faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $5,000 fine.
Respess’s trial has not yet been scheduled.
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