An Oklahoma mayor’s daughter who can also be the spouse of the city’s police chief was discovered responsible on Wednesday of soliciting intercourse from a 15-year-old pupil she taught.
Emma Delaney Hancock, 28, will spend the subsequent 4 years in jail for 2 counts of soliciting intercourse with a minor by means of using expertise, KFOR reported
She is married to Wellston Police Chief Alfred Hancock, with whom she shares two kids, and is the daughter of Wellston Mayor Paul Whitnah.
Hancock, a former substitute trainer in Wellston, started speaking to the then 15-year-old boy on Oct. 6, 2022, after the scholar put his quantity into her telephone within the preface of needing assist with an task.
Hancock despatched a pal request to the minor later that night time and the 2 started a dialog for a number of weeks.
The messages quickly turned lewd when the teenager, who stays unidentified, despatched a shirtless pic to Hancock over the social media app.
“Are we sending half-naked pictures now?” Hancock responded.
The teenager replied: “I don’t know, are we?”
“Are you trying to get me to lose my job?” Hancock allegedly stated.
The pair then shared bare pictures and sexually specific movies, the scholar informed investigators in Nov. 2022, KOKH reported, citing an arrest affidavit.
The coed alleged that he and Hancock would, on two events, meet within the classroom the then 26-year-old was subbing in and make out inside a closet in the course of the teen’s lunch, claiming the trainer groped him not less than as soon as.
The teenager claimed Hancock would additionally enable him to take hits from her vape pen.
Rumors started to unfold concerning the unlawful relationship after the teenager reportedly informed one in all his pals, who went to confront Hancock.
Hancock initially denied any wrongdoing however then allegedly admitted to the inappropriate habits, saying it will “not amount to anything because they were not going to get caught.”
Authorities obtained a search warrant for Hancock’s Snapchat account and found movies of the classroom incidents.
She turned herself in on April 13, 2023.
Throughout the trial, Hancock’s husband, Alfred Hancock, testified in assist of his spouse, saying he believed she didn’t do something unsuitable.
“She looked me dead in the eyes and said, there’s nothing [on her phone]. I mean, I believe that there’s nothing there,” the police chief informed jurors in Oct. based on NonDoc.com. “She’s my wife. I believe her. I’m on her side.”
Hancock, 28, who goes by Delaney, denied the connection with the teenager and claimed she by no means despatched or acquired any sexual messages from the boy.
She was discovered responsible of two of the 5 costs she confronted.
She was acquitted of two costs of “lewd or indecent acts to (a) child under 16,” and one in all “soliciting sexual conduct or communication with (a) minor by use of expertise.
Lincoln County District Courtroom Decide Sheila Kirk sentenced Hancock on Wednesday to 6 years in jail, three for every cost.
The convicted felon will solely must serve 4 years behind bars if she adheres to the sentence, KOKH reported.
Together with the jail time, Hancock must register as a intercourse offender.
The teenager had reportedly turned to on-line education after his relationship with Hancock and the following trial left him uncomfortable.
“It’s just too much,” one of many teen’s relations informed KFOR. “So, he’s going to go back online. So, his entire high school years were online. So, we missed all that. The sports events, the prom, walking across the stage.”
