By Stephanie Neeley
Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested a local resident and former teacher on charges of soliciting a child for unlawful sexual conduct using a computer, officials said.
Deputies arrested Stevie Glasspool, 31, at her home in the 9200 block of SW 8th Street on a warrant from Broward Sheriff’s Office.
“Glasspool abused her position as a teacher when she used Facebook to solicit sex from at least four victims at Mavericks Charter High School in Pompano Beach,” according to a report by Broward Sheriff’s Office. “Glasspool’s victims range in age from 15 to 17. She invited the young students to sleepover at her home in Boca Raton and offered them marijuana as an added incentive.
Her messages were overt in nature, investigators said.
“She wrote, ‘I don’t want you to fall in love with me but I also don’t want you to hit it and quit it either,’” according to the report.
In other messages, she wrote, “your body is amazing,” “I have marijuana for us to smoke,” and “you will be graded on performance,” according to the Sun Sentinel.
Her Facebook account has since been removed.
Glasspool, who taught social studies at Mavericks Charter High School, was fired in May 2013, authorities said.
She was most recently employed at Hollywood Academy of Arts & Science where she worked for the first four days of the new school year, investigators wrote.
“[Glasspool] is on unpaid leave pending further investigation,” according to a release from the school. “We do background checks on every employee prior to them entering the classroom and they are not permitted to go into the classroom unless the background check is clear. Parents have been informed.”
Glasspool had no criminal record, and there was nothing in her background out of the ordinary.
The teacher’s extra activities unfolded after a 17-year-old student finally shared the suggestive messages with his parents who reported it to law enforcement officials.
Glasspool has not been accused of having sex with any of the students, but detectives think there could be more victims.
Anyone with information on this ongoing case is asked to contact BSO Detective Ann Suter at 954-321-4689 or Broward Crime Stoppers, anonymously, at 954-493-TIPS (8477) orwww.browardcrimestoppers.org.