A teacher has been accused of sexually abusing a 15-year-old student at the same Arizona high school where another teacher had allegedly committed a similar crime seven months earlier.
Alyssa Todd, 23, was arrested for “inappropriate contact” between herself and a student, making her the second teacher in seven months to be arrested for a sex crime at the Odyssey Institute for Advanced and International Studies high school in Buckeye .
In mid-September, teacher Jessica Kramer, 42, was accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a 17-year-old student at the same school.
And in October, a 23-year-old teaching assistant, Diana Pirvu, was accused of having “inappropriate contact” with a 13-year-old student at a nearby Buckeye high school, Imagine Schools.
Imagine Schools and the Odyssey Institute for Advanced and International Studies are just six miles apart and about a 12-minute walk from each other.
Alyssa Todd was reported to the authorities by her husband, who suspected that his wife was having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old student.
In September, Jessica Kramer, who taught at the same school as Todd (Odyssey Institute for Advanced and International Studies High School), was also accused of having sexual relations with an underage student.
Diana Pirvu, 23, was a teaching assistant at Imagine Schools, about six miles from Odyssey Institute, and was accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old student.
Todd’s arrest marked the third time Buckeye police have had to arrest a teacher accused of having sexual contact with a minor in recent months.
Buckeye authorities were alerted to Todd’s relationship with the 15-year-old by her husband, who had allegedly found stacks of letters between the teacher and student that were “sexual in nature.”
Todd’s husband also reportedly discovered more obscene messages on a laptop, leading him to conclude that a sexual relationship was taking place between his wife, who was also a coach at the school, and the student.
Investigators gathered evidence that the sexual abuse occurred on and off the school campus and that the relationship lasted two months.
Authorities detained Todd at her Buckeye home on Wednesday, during which time she reportedly confessed to investigators that she had lied in her first interview because she was “very scared.”
In the course of his flirtation with the 15-year-old, Todd allegedly told her that she would leave her husband for him.
The Buckeye Police Department has had to investigate three different female teachers who were accused of having inappropriate relationships with students.
Diana Pirvu, an assistant teacher at Imagine Schools (pictured), was accused of having “inappropriate contact” with a 13-year-old student.
Alyssa Todd, 23, and Jessica Kramer, 42, were accused of having inappropriate relationships with underage male students at the same school.
According Arizona Family, Todd’s charges include: luring a minor for sexual exploitation, sexual exploitation of a minor, sexual conduct with a minor.
In September, Kramer, who taught at the same school as Todd, was indicted by a grand jury on multiple counts of sexual conduct with a minor.
Odyssey Institute had received a tip about a possible relationship between Kramer and a student, and the school passed the information to Buckeye police, who immediately investigated.
When the investigation was completed, police concluded that the alleged sexual abuse began around August 2022, just before Kramer left school.
The 42-year-old teacher was arrested at her Buckeye home and placed behind bars at the Maricopa County Jail.
The third similar arrest by Buckeye’s prolific police force involved 23-year-old Diana Pirvu, who was accused of having “inappropriate contact” with a 13-year-old student.
In October, one of the victim’s relatives contacted officers because he suspected an illicit relationship between the boy and the Imagine Schools teaching assistant.
The Buckeye Police Special Investigations Unit examined Pirvu’s correspondence with the boy and allegedly found multiple incidents of child sexual abuse that had occurred off campus.
Pirvu was picked up by authorities at a traffic stop near her home in Buckeye and was later interviewed by investigators.
She was booked into prison on a charge of child abuse.
In a news release after the arrest, Buckeye police said, “Buckeye Police are committed to holding offenders accountable, especially those responsible for caring for the most vulnerable members of our community.”
They concluded: “We continue our work to seek justice for victims of sexual crimes and support them throughout the process.”