A former Texas teacher will spend the next two decades behind bars after confessing to sexually assaulting a teenage student and his friend in a van last year.
The shocking act took place in November 2019, when 40-year-old Leticia Lowery raped a 14-year-old boy inside of a home. In a separate incident, Lowery allegedly forced a 13-year-old girl to perform oral sex on the same boy in a van while she watched. At the time of the sexual assaults, Lowery was out on bond from Harris County for a charge of online solicitation of a minor, who was 15-years-old. According to court documents, she solicited that teenager for sex as well.
The mother of the 14-year-old boy began to suspect that the woman was having an inappropriate relationship with her son. Once she began to monitor his cell phone, she discovered text messages between the two that were “sexual in nature.” Her son told her that he and Lowery had engaged in sexual intercourse inside the family’s home on November 1st, 2019. The mother then notified the authorities.
On Tuesday, Lowery plead guilty to second-degree sexual assault of a child and first-degree sexual performance by a child. Her guilty plea was a part of an agreement that would give her an automatic 20 years behind bars. Montgomery County Assistant District Attorney Laura Bond told Click2Houston that the deal “prevented the children involved that she victimized and sexually assaulted from having to testify.”
The former teacher and private tutor still has her pending case in Harris County, where she will stand trial next year. She has pleaded not guilty in that case.
“I think oftentimes when people hear about offenses that are committed by a female against a male child, people tend to minimize it but the effect on the child is still the same,” Bond said.
