Teacher admits sexually assaulting 15-year-old boy met at church

Teacher admits sexually assaulting 15-year-old boy met at church

A former teacher pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a teenager she met while volunteering at an Arkansas church once frequented by former President Bill Clinton.

Reagan Gray began assaulting the boy in 2020 when she was 23 and he was just 15 after they met at the iconic Immanuel Baptist Church in Little Rock, where she volunteered with the student ministry.

During interviews with investigators, the boy alleged that Gray had given him oral s£x — but claimed they didn’t have intercourse so he could “stay pure,” according to court documents.

Gray was initially charged with s£xual assault in the first and fourth degree after her arrest last year, but pleaded guilty to s£xual assault in the second degree.

She was sentenced on Monday, May 19, to six years’ probation and ordered to pay a $1,000 fine.

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Additionally, she must submit a DNA sample and will be placed on the s£x offender registry, according to KARK.

Gray is also barred from having any contact with the victim, and has since been fired from her job at Sylvan Hills Middle School.

The victim’s parents discovered a trove of racy text messages, including nude photos, between the victim and Gray in 2020 — which they reported to the church’s then-head pastor Steven Smith, according to court documents.

Smith confronted Gray about the texts but she assured him the relationship was not “physical.”

Gray, who also worked as a teacher at Little Rock Christian Academy at the time, was yanked from the student ministry and forced by the church to attend counseling services, to which she agreed. Shortly afterward, however, she was back with the church youth group.

Federal authorities launched an investigation in February 2024 when they learned that Gray had continued to exchange messages with the teen via Snapchat, the court documents charge.

The alleged abuse, which occurred nearly a dozen times, took place in Gray’s car or apartment, the victim told police.

Smith resigned from his position last year over the controversy.