- Michelle Solis, 46, pleaded no contest to charges related to having sexual relations with a 14-year-old student several years ago.
- Solis’ case is part of a worrying trend in the United States of female teachers facing legal action in connection with allegedly illegal sexual behavior.
A former high school teacher in Northern California pleaded no contest to charges of having unlawful sexual relations with a minor with a 14-year-old boy.
Michelle Christine Solis, 46, entered a no-contest plea earlier this week in Butte County Superior Court in Gridley, California, related to sex charges including unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, as well as sending harmful photographs to a minor.
The charges arise from interactions between Solis and a 14-year-old boy in 2021, when he was in eighth grade at Sycamore Junior High School.
Gridley police obtained evidence suggesting Solis first followed the teen on social media before sending him explicit messages and photos of herself in the weeks before her graduation.
Michelle Christine Solis, 46, entered a no-contest plea earlier this week in Butte County Superior Court in Gridley, California, related to sex charges including unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, as well as sending harmful photographs to a minor.
The incident allegedly occurred on eighth grade graduation day in 2021 in a locked classroom at Sycamore Junior High School in Northern California.
According to a news release from District Attorney Mike Ramsey, Solis, a veteran educator with 20 years of experience, had sexual relations with the boy on his graduation day inside a locked classroom.
Rumors about Solis circulated in Gridley, a town about 30 miles south of Chico, as did some of the explicit photographs of the middle-aged educator.
The rumors and explicit material, which eventually reached local parents, led police to continue the investigation, which included contacting the boy.
Authorities found the couple’s messages and four explicit photographs of SolÃs on the boy’s phone.
Last November, Solis was arrested and released on $15,000 bail.
The rumors and explicit material, which eventually reached local parents, led police to continue the investigation, which included contacting the boy.
He is free until his sentencing hearing, which is currently scheduled for June 6 at 1:30 p.m.
As part of his newly filed no contest plea, he agreed to register as a sex offender.
He also faces up to four years in state prison, according to the district attorney’s office.
Solis’ case is part of a worrying trend in the United States of female teachers facing legal action in connection with allegedly illegal sexual behavior between themselves and their underage students.
DailyMail.com found that 25 teachers had been arrested in 16 states in the past 12 months alone, as the so-called “classroom cougar” epidemic begins to take formal shape.