Criminal charges against a Semmes high school teacher accused of having a sexual relationship with a student are now official. A Mobile County grand jury has indicted Mary G. Montgomery High School math teacher Alicia Gray on charges of first-degree s0d0my, sexual abuse and being a school employee who engaged in a sex act with a student younger than 19. The most serious charge, s0d0my, is a Class A felony punishable by 10 years to life in prison. The other felony charge is punishable by two to 20 years in prison, and the sexual abuse charge is a misdemeanor. Gray, 28, remains free on bail and on paid leave from the Mobile County school system.
Citing an affidavit that since has been sealed, NBC-15 reported that the 14-year-old student told investigators that the relationship began around New Year’s Day and intensified, ultimately leading to 0ral sex near the student’s home.
Charging documents obtained by Local 15 news describe in graphic detail what Mobile County Sheriff’s investigators said was a sexual affair between Mary G. Montgomery High School math teacher Alicia Gray and her 14 year old student. The relationship, Mobile County Cpl. Terri Hall wrote, started around New Year’s Day 2013 with inappropriate contact between the student, whose name was redacted because he is a minor, and Gray started on Facebook using cellphones and computers.
The contact then became physical, the records show, quoting the teen as having “inappropriate physical contact which consisted of kissing and hugging during and after school hours while at Mary G. Montgomery High School.” Hall also claimed the boy told investigators his relationship with Gray “intensified” resulting in an exchange of 0ral sex between the two taking place, “near or at the victim’s residence.”
In what may be an attempt to prove an effort to cover one’s tracks, the boy also told investigators Gray “took several nekkid pictures and transmitted those pictures to one another via their cell phones through Snap Chat application.” According to news reports, Snap Chat is a mobile phone application commonly used by teens to send inappropriate pictures because once the recipient opens the images they’re automatically erased.