A former Missouri math teacher has pleaded guilty to sexual contact with a student, with more severe allegations, including statutory rape and child molestation, being subsequently dropped as part of the plea agreement. Hailey Clifton-Carmack, 26, reached this agreement on Friday, as reported by KRCG.
The teacher faced arrest earlier this year after evidence of the inappropriate relationship came to light, including photographs showing scratches on the student’s back.
These images were presented to law enforcement by a classmate of the victim, propelling a full investigation into the matter by the police.
Clifton-Carmack, who now faces up to four years in prison, is on house arrest pending her sentencing, which is scheduled for October 11. The teen's father, Mark Creighton, has also been implicated in the case for not reporting the relationship despite being aware of it.
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He has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child. Pulaski County Prosecuting Attorney Kevin Hillman stated that Creighton's case is "on hold" until the teacher's sentencing, as he has agreed to assist the prosecutors and testify if required.
The felony took place in Pulaski County, Missouri, though Clifton-Carmack was apprehended by the Garden Ridge Police Department some 800 miles away in Comal County, Texas, in early January.
The Laquey school resource officer initially alerted the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Department to the situation.
According to court documents, the teacher and student engaged in sexual activities during school hours, sometimes enlisting other students as lookouts.
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Moreover, the teacher, a recently divorced mother of two, had been married to Chance Carmack—an amateur mixed martial arts fighter and U.S. Army basic training graduate—before the incidents.
The relationship was brought to law enforcement after a student showed them photographs demonstrating physical marks on the boy’s back, which the student claimed were from Clifton-Carmack after they had sex in the classmate’s driveway.
Before her arrest, Clifton-Carmack had been questioned by detectives who seized her phone.
However, they could not immediately access potential incriminating evidence due to the necessity of a warrant.
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The teacher initially denied any inappropriate relationship with students.
Once the warrant was obtained, texts related to her relationship with the 16-year-old boy were discovered.
The student who reported the affair expressed concerns over Clifton-Carmack’s behavior, describing her as being overly friendly with students.
She was also criticized for her attire, with complaints that she often wore tight or low-cut shirts and leggings to accentuate her body, which led to reprimands from school administrators for being "too close with students."
After the revelations of the relationship and pending legal consequences, Clifton-Carmack left Missouri for Texas around December 23, 2023, and was detained on January 5, 2024, in Garden Ridge, Texas, before extradition to Missouri to face the charges.
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My teachers definitely didn’t look like her when I was a teenager.
Only one of mine did (my geometry teacher), but she would never have done anything like this teacher did.
How is a 16 year old boy having sex child endangerment? The pain from the high fives?
Probably by a combination of high fives and slaps on the back!
so… boys and girls are different and distinct? Is that what you are saying? Or are you saying she should be held to the same standers as if she were a male teacher and this happened to a 16 year old girl? Or are you saying there should be a lower age for the definition of both boys and girls as being an adult? (Moot point as the teacher should be punished for this action with one of her students).
I’m saying it’s different for boys and girls. They are different and distinct and immutable. Charge her for statutory rape, but don’t stack stupid charges.
Now all of a sudden the women are the predators? Our society needs a wake up.
I don’t believe it’s all of a sudden. They’re just finally being held accountable.
Men aren’t participating in the dating game since it’s become a toxic mess so these desperate women will feast upon your teen boys. Bet she gets a slap on the wrist then moves to a new district to be hired as a teacher.
it’s a power trip for the women.
I had one good looking teacher in high school, and if she had come on to me I would have jumped at it, no hesitation. I would not have told my friends.
All the female teachers I had scared little willy all the way back to the entrance to the elevator!
this is why character is so important when hiring teachers. every 16 year old boy would love to have sex with an attractive teacher. it is the teacher’s job to say no and correct the student btw, this is not rape. consensual sex is not rape. there is a big difference between a boy and a girl being raped. unfortunately liberalism has destroyed common sense.,
No way. If women are so “strong and independent” they should be treated in the same legal way as a guy.
It’s the ones that aren’t getting any that are the most upset about this.
The only teacher that flirted with students in my HS was a creepy gym MALE gym teacher that used to walk through the showers after PE and look at all the naked boys, including myself. He always tried to get one of us to go home with him to help him “paint his house”. BUT being or acting gay was heavily frowned on by everyone back then so it never happened that I know of.
If this had happened to me I would be mute and still in High Schoool.
So 13 can go into 26 more than 2 times!
He did the math….teacher….
He was 16, AND HE had left overs after the first time!!!
Where were all these hyper sexualized hot MILF teachers when I was 16?
She plead Insanity. She said “Your Honor, I’m just crazy about that young stuff.”
I am now identifying as a high school teen
What a lucky young man
Wait just a minute. Did I read this correctly?
“However, they could not immediately access potential incriminating evidence due to the necessity of a warrant.”
Law enforcement actually followed the Constitution and obtained a warrant? Obviously, those cops went rogue.
All your comments here give me hope again! I also say: It was consensual, and what a lucky dude! I would have been so happy in school and not said a beep to anyone.
This is nothing new…. back in the 80’s when I was in high school, there was some shady extracurricular activity taking place with a couple of the woman teachers. They are both single, it is consensual, there is no report manipulation or extortion; and from the sounds of it, at least one parent had knowledge of this activity. Yes this goes both ways; we had a male biology teacher that every girl in school wanted a piece of, and I suspect at least a few got what they wanted…. No harm no foul especially these days when the leftist idiot believe a 3rd grader has the rights to make sexual gender choices on their own. Why the double standard?!!
Where was she when I was in school?
Oh, the poor 16-year old boy! His life is ruined because he got laid!! How will he ever get over this disgrace??!! /sarc off. If boys and girls should be treated equally – and I’m not saying they should – then we need to draft women and place them in combat the same as the men who get drafted for the next war. But again, men and women are different. And a 16-year old boy having sex with an older woman is certainly not something that ‘endangers’ or ‘damages’ him inane way.
Yes,…the poor boy will be left with unbridled confidence for the rest of his life.
Do the math…..26 year old + 16 year old = 4 ever fun sex
You people dismissing this is mind boggling. Teachers aren’t allowed to have sex with students, even if they’re not underage and in college.
So you obviously think that this lucky 16-year boy was ‘endangered’ and his life ruined. How stupid is that!!