A judge ordered Alison Peck to stay away from a former student of hers at Greenfield High School. A detective says the 16-year-old boy said he and Peck have been having sexual relations since January (photo from Greene County Sheriff's Department).
Story Published:
May 22, 2009 at 2:26 PM CST
Story Updated:
May 22, 2009 at 3:43 PM CST
SPRINGFIELD -- A former teacher at Greenfield High School is now charged in Greene County with statutory rape. Investigators say Alison Peck of Mount Vernon convinced two friends to help her spend a night at a motel in Springfield with a 16-year-old boy who used to be her student.
Peck, 23, was first charged in Dade County on May 14 with having sexual relations with the boy at a park in that county sometime between January and March. On the day after being served with a citation about those two statutory rape charges, and handing an officer a bond to prevent being booked into the county jail, investigators say Peck asked two of her friends to take the boy to a motel in Springfield, where he spent the night with her.
To read the Greene County charges and probable cause statement against Peck, click here.
Greene County prosecutors charged Peck on Friday with one count of statuory rape. Last Sunday, the Lawrence County prosecuting attorney charged Peck with statutory sodomy and statutory rape because the boy told the detective that he had liaisons with Peck at her home in Mount Vernon.
Judges have set bonds of $2,500 in Dade County, $10,000 in Lawrence County, and $200,000 in Greene County. A Greene County judge also ordered her to have no contact with the boy or his family, not to be within 1,000 feet of his home or school, not to have contact with her two friends who admitted taking the boy to Springfield, not to leave Missouri, and to surrender her passport to the sheriff's department.
The investigation of Peck started in April after the Dade County sheriff heard rumors about the affair. He asked the Missouri State Highway Patrol to investigate. The Greenfield School District immediately put Peck, a first-year music teacher, on administrative leave and she later resigned before she was charged.
Court records show Peck filed for divorce in January, during the time the boy told a detective that he was regularly meeting with Peck for sexual relations. Peck's husband did not contest the divorce and it was finalized in March.
The boy told a detective that the affair started after he starting sending Peck text messages around Christmas. The detective said Peck basically admitted the boy's details of the affair in a separate interview.
