Snapchatting Texas Teach Busted for Sex with Student

PASADENA, Texas—They should know better, but they don't. Teachers, that is, and the nude photos they idiotically send to underage paramours via Snapchat. Oops! Not another felony charge! Yes, that's just what 24-year-old Texas biology teacher Ashley Zehnder did, and now she's facing a felony charge for having an "inappropriate relationship" with a minor. The fact that the student was 17 years old and one of the luckiest kids in school is totally beside the point and a sick thought to have! Sick!! But this story is less about an inappropriate (and illegal) sexual tryst between a teacher and student, and more about the almost unbelievable manner in which Zehnder not only fashioned her own metaphorical noose, but slipped it over her own head and tightened it against her own neck. If she had simply done nothing, nothing might have been the outcome. Instead, according to a probable cause affidavit prepared by the responding police officer, it was Zehnder who expressed concern to a school administrator earlier this month "about rumors of students texting around an inappropriate photo of herself.” Zehnder, according to the affidavit notes, suggested that a student had somehow “gotten on her phone and sent the picture.” That was her first mistake. "In short order," reports The Smoking Gun, "an assistant principal interviewed a male student who admitted having a naked photo of Zehnder (who is pictured at right). The teen added that he was provided the image by a classmate who spoke of having a sexual relationship with Zehnder. "When interviewed by police," continues the site, "the second teen admitted that he began having sex with Zehnder last May. He gave cops a description of Zehnder’s Houston apartment and bedroom, as well as details of their sexual encounters. The teen also said that Zehnder sent him a 'naked photo of herself through Snapchat,' an image he forwarded to 'some of his friends at school.'" Using Snapchat to send a nude to the kid was her second mistake. At first, the young teacher denied the affair, but proof in the form of the snapchatted photo and messages on the kid's phone forced her to concede the point. She resigned forthwith and now faces the felony charge. She really should have known better.