Emily Housley

Emily Elizabeth Housley, 30-year-old woman from Fort Worth, Texas has been sentenced to seven years of probation after she pleading guilty to having sexual relationship with a 16-year-old male.

She pleaded guilty to engaging in an improper relationship between an educator and student, a second-degree felony. Under the terms of the plea agreement, a sexual assault charge was dropped.
Housley, former North Side High School math teacher, who resigned in July 2009 after being caught in a Fort Worth park with the male student, was initially charged with sexual assault of a child under 17 and improper relationship between an educator and student.

The 16-year-old boy’s mother alerted police to the fact that her son had admitted to engaging in sex with Housley, a married mother-of-two. According to detectives, Housley had been flirting with the boy since early this year, before he turned 16. By April 2009, after the boy had turned 16, the relationship evolved into sexual encounters — the first occurring inside Housley’s classroom after school hours. The sexual encounters continued — at the school, in Housley’s car, at her mother’s home, and at Housley’s Saginaw home when her husband and children were away, . After school let out for the summer, Housley met the teen at his Fort Worth house while he was alone. She was going to a teacher conference that was near his house, and she was going over there on her lunch breaks and having sex with him.

For the conviction, Judge Elizabeth Berry of Criminal District Court No. 3 sentenced Housley to seven years of probation and prohibited her from ever teaching again.The teaching prohibition does not include participating in activities at her own children’s schools, he said.