On July 19, 2023, the Nacogdoches Police Department received a call from district officers regarding disturbing online messages between a teacher and a student at McMichael Middle School in Texas. The teacher was 24-year-old Annaleigh Andrews, a reading interventionist. One of the other students had found Snapchat messages and informed the principal.
Notably, Snapchat allows users to send disappearing messages, so the texts automatically vanish after being read.
According to a district officer, the school was alerted to an inappropriate relationship between a teacher and a student after a classmate showed the principal their Snapchat correspondence. Authorities believe the encounters took place off-campus during the summer break.
An anonymous poster had uploaded the screenshots between the two on Facebook, where Annaleigh could be seen sending inappropriate messages to the student.
The police first talked to the child’s mother and found out he was only 15.
“I would think he would have enough sense of right from wrong,” the heartbroken mother told the detectives.
A police bodycam footage posted by EWU Bodycam on YouTube showed the exact moment detectives confronted the teacher. However, as they investigate. The case took a darker turn.
Although the school was closed for the summer, the police could get a hold of Andrews when she visited the school to return some computer equipment.
Andrews acted completely clueless at first. After investigators mentioned the student’s name, she tried to shift the blame to him.
“The mistake I made was um letting him contact me,” she said.
“We just talked and I didn’t, you know, think anything of it really. He sort of started to make me feel uncomfortable. And after, you know, after I could tell that was how he was thinking, I you know, and also just getting some space away from the situation. I went on vacation. and I like applied to a totally different job actually. I’m like going overseas now to volunteer on mercy ships.”
“I probably said some things that I shouldn’t have said to him, but nothing criminal ever happened between us and I don’t know what he said and you know, it’s just really frustrating you know, I don’t know what I was accused of exactly.”
The police also found out that Andrews had sent a text to the uploader of the Facebook post, asking them to reveal their identity. The messages revealed that the two met outside the school on multiple occasions. At first, she denied the allegations. However, her demeanor changed when faced with irrefutable evidence.
“I shouldn’t have been there, but uh I was just lonely and wanted just someone to hang out with,” she said.
She proceeded to reveal that the student initiated physical contact and the two participated in intercourse three times. Although she claims he didn’t force himself on her, she adds that he didn’t give her a chance to back away.
Andrews then led the detectives to a mansion where the incidents took place, and they conducted a thorough search.
Andrews resigned from her teaching position via email, effective immediately. Investigators analyzed the victim’s phone with his mother’s consent. They discovered that the student’s girlfriend was the uploader on Facebook. She had logged into his Snapchat account, found the messages, and saw a group chat where the student admitted to having a physical relationship with the teacher.
In August 2024, Andrews pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual assault of a child and three counts of online solicitation of a minor. On April 8, 2025, she was sentenced to two years in a Texas prison, fined $5,000, and ordered to register as a sex offender.
Disclaimer: The Inquisitr could not independently confirm all facts of this incident and is reporting based on the information available within the public record.
