This week, Oakland County Prosecutor Karen D. McDonald introduced 26-year-old Jocelyn Sanroman — a former trainer at Oakside Prep Academy — was arrested and charged with three counts of Third Diploma Prison Sexual Conduct for “a sexual relationship involving a teenaged scholar.”

Per McDonald, Sanroman is accused of getting a sexual relationship with a then-16-year-old scholar again in 2023. In accordance with prosecutors, the suspect “allegedly instructed one other trainer that she was having intercourse with the sufferer,” earlier than that trainer reported it to authorities.

Whereas the age of consent in Michigan is 16, McDonald stated Sanroman is accused of “utilizing her place of authority to take advantage of a minor sufferer.”

The prosecutor additionally instructed FOX 2, “It is as a result of we have to make faculty the most secure place it may be for teenagers, proper? Protected from gun violence, protected from assault, protected from sexual assault. College is meant to be some place the place your children really feel protected.”

“These allegations symbolize the last word breach of belief positioned in educators by dad and mom and the neighborhood,” she continued in an announcement. “As a former trainer myself, I applaud the trainer who contacted police about this case, defending different college students from additional exploitation.”

The college, in the meantime, instructed FOX 2 they acted instantly upon studying the allegations.

“We attempt to supply a protected and supportive studying atmosphere for the scholars entrusted to our care,” the varsity stated in an announcement. “Their security and well-being stays our high precedence.”

In accordance with jail information, Sanroman was booked Monday morning and was launched later the identical day.

Per prosecutors, if discovered responsible, she faces as much as to fifteen years in jail.