A Catholic high school teacher faces 15 years in prison for allegedly having sex with her teenage student in her office.
Emily Nutley, 42, married and mother of three, was charged with six counts of sexual assault and dismissed from St Xavier’s High School in Cincinnati.
Hamilton County Prosecutor Melissa Powers said Nutley met the 17-year-old when he was sent to a program for students with academic difficulties that she ran.
They began texting after school last fall and she allegedly sent him naked selfies and “sexually explicit messages.”
Catholic high school teacher Emily Nutley, 42, faces 15 years in prison for allegedly having sex with her teenage student in her office.
Nutley, a married mother of three, was charged with six counts of sexual assault and dismissed from St Xavier’s High School in Cincinnati.
Powers alleged that their relationship escalated until they had sex several times in mid-November, at least once in his office at the all-boys school after hours.
Nutley allegedly continued texting the student after the student attempted to break off the illicit relationship.
St Xavier’s charges $18,130 a year in tuition, plus $300 in administrative fees, although financial aid is available.
The school discovered the alleged relationship and conducted an internal investigation, then notified Springfield Township police.
Nutley was fired as soon as the criminal investigation began, leading to her being indicted by a Hamilton County grand jury and arrested on Monday.
She joined the Jesuit school before the 2021-22 year and was listed as a “multi-tiered systems support coordinator” in the student handbook.
Nutley has two daughters and a son, the oldest of whom is a junior at a different high school and only slightly younger than the victim.
Nutley joined the Jesuit school ahead of the 2021-22 year and was listed as ‘multi-tier systems support coordinator’
Nutley previously taught at Madeira Elementary School, also in Cincinnati, and posted photos of his work and his students there on social media.
The disgraced educator has two daughters and a son, the oldest of whom is a junior at a different high school and only slightly younger than the victim.
He previously taught at Madeira Elementary School, also in Cincinnati, and posted photos of his work and his students there on social media.
‘”Children who need the most love will ask for it in the least loving way.” Be THAT person for THAT student,’ one post read.
Another post read: ‘HELLO! 3rd graders! Seeing someone alone, approaching and helping, saying hello.’
Nutley’s mother, Cheryl Rose, praised her daughter in a birthday post just months before the alleged relationship with the student began.
‘Emily, my sweet and lovely fun-loving girl. I love you so much, darling. “I’m so proud of everything you are,” she began.
“A good daughter, a great wife, a loving mother and a wonderful advocate for all of her students.”
Nutley was fired as soon as the criminal investigation began, leading to her being indicted by a Hamilton County grand jury and arrested on Monday.
‘KIND is GREAT at Madeira Elementary!’ Nutley wrote alongside this photo of her at her previous school.
Nutley worked with young children at his previous school, but switched to teenagers at St Xavier’s.
Nutley will face court on November 8.
“This is absolutely unacceptable and reprehensible behavior by an adult toward a minor,” Powers said.
“This girl needed help and guidance, but instead she found an adult who sought to act out her perverted sexual desires.”
Powers said Nutley’s alleged conduct was nothing less than “child sexual abuse” and would be prosecuted “fully and exhaustively.”
“This child was the victim of an adult predator who should never again play a role that puts her in contact with children,” he said.
“She used this child for her own sexual gratification while taking advantage of the position she held.”
St Xavier’s said it “believed this case was an isolated incident” but urged any other students to contact police or principal Dan Lynch if they were victims of crime.