Fifth-grade teacher, 42, learns her fate after pressuring boy, 13, and girl, 12, to engage in sexual acts

A fifth-grade teacher who coerced 2 minors to prosecute successful enactment acts successful beforehand of her has been sentenced to 27 years successful prison. 

Keisha Lyn Swarner, 42, was handed the lengthy situation agelong connected apical of 30 years of supervised merchandise aft manipulating the minors and luring them to her location successful San Antonio, Texas. 

She was arrested successful April 2022 aft the genitor of a 13-year-old lad discovered a telephone Swarner had fixed him, successful which she was saved arsenic a interaction called 'mom.' 

An probe uncovered a sickening grooming run wherever Swarner had targeted the lad and a 12-year-old girl, including paying them with currency and Apple devices to nonstop lewd images and prosecute successful enactment acts. 

Swarner's amerciable behaviour occurred portion she was a fifth-grade teacher astatine Edgewood Independent School District, nevertheless a territory authoritative said her crimes person 'nothing to bash with Edgewood nor its students.' 

It is unclear however she met her 2 victims nor however agelong the maltreatment went connected for, with the run lone ending erstwhile the boy's parent discovered a telephone Swarner had fixed him.  

As authorities launched an investigation, the lad told officers that Swarner had fixed him arsenic galore arsenic 4 iPads and 2 iPhones, on with cash. 

It was recovered that Swarner had been sending lewd texts with the boy, including him sending her a photograph of himself wearing lone a towel. 

When helium told her that helium had nary blistery h2o during the exchange, she invited him circular to her location to ablution instead, reports San Antonio Express News. 

During the investigation, it was recovered that Swarner had besides snared a 12-year-old miss done her grooming campaign, and the teacher had paid the 2 victims wealth to nonstop pictures of their backstage parts to each other. 

Officials added that Swarner had besides paid the lad wealth to enactment connected a girl's bathing suit. 

The lad told investigators that arsenic the grooming escalated, Swarner would often prime him up and instrumentality him to her location at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, wherever she lived with her servicemember husband. Swarner's societal media besides shows she is simply a mother, but it is unclear however galore children she has. 

During 1 of these occasions, Swarner persuaded the lad to person intersexual relations with the 12-year-old girl, contempt him initially refusing. 

When Swarner was confronted by officers, she denied immoderate cognition oregon engagement successful the crimes, and adjacent 'brought up that she recorded audio of (the boy) confessing that helium was making this up', prosecutors said. 

However, officials added that her 'story dilatory changed', and she admitted to sending galore of the messages that were recovered connected the phones. 

Swarner was besides charged with obstruction of justness during the probe aft it was discovered that erstwhile she recovered retired the antheral unfortunate was going to beryllium interviewed by detectives, she messaged him connected TikTok to manager him astir what to say. 

It was besides claimed that she instructed the pistillate unfortunate to usage the boy's iPad to delete the TikTok messages. 

Prosecutors said aft the lad spoke to detectives, Swarner continued to effort and manager him, 'attempting to get him to accidental that helium lied' to police. 

In 1 portion of grounds brought against the teacher, she was recovered to person texted him: 'Put your telephone distant truthful nary 1 tin find it, and if they find it, we’re successful truthful overmuch trouble.'

Swarner initially pleaded not guilty, but successful January 2024 pleaded blameworthy to one number of intersexual show by a child, admitting that she had authorized and induced a kid younger than 14 years of property to prosecute successful intersexual conduct.