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| Jake Fenke, H'School Teacher |
PRINCIPAL
of a school, David Dean was on Monday arrested and
charged to court for online solicitation of a minor after discovering engaged
love text messages with an 11 year old girl.
According
to KEYEtv in Texas, Burnet Middle School parents were dumbfounded, and immediately
gathered for a private meeting in the school cafeteria. The parents and members
of staff of Austin ISD deliberated on the predicament as well as the likely
effects on the school leadership after its principal was arrested and charged
with online solicitation of a minor.
"It's very concerning. It's very scary, but to be
completely honest I'm not upset. I'm not upset at AISD. I'm upset at the person
who did it," said Burnet Middle School mom Crystle Castro.
Dean was arrested on Monday
and charged with online solicitation of a minor, a
second-degree felony.
"I know that from the district's perspective he is
not allowed back at the campus and so we continue to monitor that," said
AISD Chief of Police Eric Mendez.
AISD says the incident did not involve any of their
students. Still, still two officers will remain at Burnet Middle School each
day, "to put parents at ease, ensure the safety of the campuses and to
ensure that Mr. Dean does not come back," says reportedly Mendez.
The allegations are upsetting for parents whose children
admired Dean. "My son kind of looked up to him, like a mentor, so it
really, really upset me," said mother Briana Bueno. Bueno had to explain
the situation to her son Monday night. "I was just worried that my son was
going to feel betrayal mistrust. He really liked him as a person," she
said.
An affidavit from Montgomery County, north of Houston,
details the text messages allegedly sent by Dean to the female minor leading to
his arrest.
According to the affidavit, a woman in Conroe, Texas
alerted police that her 11-year-old daughter had exchanged text messages with
Dean on April 15.
Police say the 11-year-old, who is part of Dean's extended
family, used her mother's phone to send a message to Dean, inviting him to
their home for a party with her mother's permission. The girl and Dean
continued to exchange messages while the girl's mother was busy. When the
girl's mother got her phone back, she read the messages Dean had sent her
daughter, including:
"I'm in
Austin so I'm still far but if you're okay I can come lay next to you and give
you company!"
"I'm
comin for your needs. What are your needs right now."
"Are you sure cause
what's best for me is to feel you see you. Can I confess something?"
"If I show up can I sleep
in your bed?"
"Do you know what happens
to a man when he sleeps? I will try to not let it but sometimes things happen that
shouldn't especially with young girls."
"I won't come tonight.
Unless you tell me that you want to learn what a man's thing looks like."
In the affidavit, when the girl asked Dean if he knew who
he was talking to, he replied, "yes." Dean also allegedly asked the
girl if she knew how to delete text messages.
It further stated that the girl's mother messaged Dean and
told him not to come to their house. The 11-year-old became scared that Dean
was going to come to their home since she had given him the address and access
code. The girl's mother called her father-in-law, who confronted Dean about the
messages. Dean told the man that his phone was "possibly hacked."
According to Texas Education Agency records, Dean started
his career in Texas as a teacher in 2003. He has worked at AISD for a decade as
a teacher, assistant principal and school principal.
In a similar development, a 26 year old Hutto High School coach and science teacher, Jake
Fenke admitted to having sex with a student in his classroom,
according to police.
According to an affidavit, the father of a 16-year-old
girl informed the police on May 25 that his daughter had been communicating
with Jake Fenske by text message and Snapchat. The father also told police
friends of his daughter claimed the girl and Fenske were involved in a sexual
relationship.
The girl's cell phone was provided to police and
investigators found multiple instances of communication between the girl and
Fenske.
When police interviewed the girl, she stated she had been
communicating with Fenske via text and Snapchat and had been in a "dating
relationship" with Fenske since the end of March.
Police say the girl also said that she had sex with Fenske
multiple times, including in his Round Rock apartment and in his truck on an
unknown road in Hutto.
In court documents, police say that when they interviewed
Fenkse at Hutto High School on May 27, he stated that he loved the 16-year-old
and admitted to having sex with her, in his apartment and truck as the girl had
stated, as well as inside his classroom at Hutto High School.
Fenske is charged with improper relationship between
educator and student, a 3rd degree felony. According to Hutto ISD, he has been
placed on administrative leave.
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