Oliver Fell, a particular schooling instructor at Haile Center College in Bradenton, FL, was arrested on costs of lewd conduct with a pupil by an authority determine, a second-degree felony and a third-degree felony of transmission of dangerous materials to a minor, per the Manatee County Sheriff’s Workplace. 

She turned herself in on June 2, following a warrant for her arrest.

An arrest affidavit obtained by ABC 7 shares perception into the investigation that led to Fell’s arrest.

The Sheriff first grew to become conscious of the allegations on March 3, when a center college useful resource officer was informed by a pupil that he had been speaking with Fell over social media.

He then confirmed the useful resource officer a display recording from one other pupil that confirmed a dialog on Snapchat. In it, the individual he believed to be Fell allegedly “despatched him three photos, one being her in a washing go well with (might be recognized as her), a brown costume (no facial options proven) and a picture of a nude feminine breast (no facial options noticed).”

The latter picture, authorities identified, confirmed a “inexperienced plush pillow/stuffed animal” in it as effectively.

When confronted with the pictures by the college useful resource officer, Fell allegedly mentioned the washing go well with and costume pictures had been her, including that they had been publicly out there to anybody on her Instagram account.

She denied being the topic of the breast photograph, nevertheless, per the docs. Investigators additionally famous that the college useful resource officer allegedly “did not use the Snapchat utility to navigate via her account and [simply] accepted her denial of the suspected lewd photos.”

The boy’s cellphone was later seized by authorities, with parental consent, and extra communications between the 2 had been allegedly discovered on TikTok. His cellphone, nevertheless, did not have the breast photograph on it, as Snapchat does not save photos.

Authorities then obtained a search warrant for the Snapchat account speaking with the teenager, with the identify, date of beginning, and handle all allegedly coming again as a match for Fell.

The account, per authorities, “grew to become mates with the sufferer’s account on December 10, 2024 and was deleted from her mates account on 3-4-25, which is similar date on which the investigation was dropped at Oliver’s consideration.”

One other search warrant was ultimately executed on Fell’s house, with authorities saying they had been then in a position to affirm her cellphone was the one used to create the Snapchat account in query.

In addition they allegedly discovered the “inexperienced plush pillow/stuffed animal” within the nude photograph, earlier than claiming “bedding noticed throughout the search warrant was much like the bedding noticed within the {photograph}.”

Detectives once more spoke with the minor, who mentioned he acquired the instructor’s Snapchat account throughout college hours, earlier than initiating a non-public chat along with her over Christmas break.

He allegedly informed authorities that in their dialog he requested whether or not she’d convey snack chips in for the category — claiming Fell responded, “What are you going to do for them?” together with a winking emoji. He additionally claimed that, at one level, she allegedly wrote, “I wish to style you,” additionally with a winking emoji.

The alleged conversations continued the following day, with a good friend additionally becoming a member of him to speak to her over his account. He mentioned they spoke about her sexual expertise, earlier than he requested whether or not she’d ever despatched nude pictures and requested some himself. Then, he mentioned, she despatched two pictures — one being the topless one.

He additionally claimed Fell “did ask him to not inform anyone about their dialog.”

The boy’s mom spoke with ABC 7, claiming her son was suspended after making the allegations — whereas the instructor remained within the classroom, on the college, till Might 14. At that time, the college mentioned she was “reassigned to a district website with no contact with college students.”

“Not solely was I dissatisfied {that a} instructor that was put there to guard my baby was grooming him … I am extra dissatisfied that they inflicted extra trauma by calling him a liar,” the mom informed the outlet. “By him considering he was doing the appropriate factor and talking up, they retaliated towards him.”

The college’s principal, Irene Nikitopoulos, launched the next assertion to folks:

Haile Center Mother and father, I’m following up on a earlier communication I despatched a couple of employees member being investigated for alleged inappropriate posts on social media. The employees member, ESE Instructor Oliver Fell, turned herself into the Manatee County Sheriff’s Workplace final night time and was subsequently arrested and charged with a second-degree felony and a third-degree felony. Each felonies need to do with unlawful social media communications with a pupil at our faculty.

As a media launch from the Sheriffs’ Workplace reviews, it took a number of weeks of investigation to verify the allegations of the unlawful communications. As soon as regulation enforcement had adequate affirmation, our faculty and district had been knowledgeable and Ms. Fell was instantly reassigned to a place away from our faculty the place she had no contact with college students. Our faculty and the district will proceed to completely cooperate with the continued investigation.