Female California teacher, 46, pleads no contest to raping 14 year-old boy as he celebrated his eighth grade graduation
- Michelle Solis, 46, pleaded no contest to charges related to sex with a 14-year-old student several years ago
- Solis’ case is part of a disturbing trend in the US of female teachers taking legal action over alleged unlawful sexual conduct
A former high school teacher in Northern California has pleaded no contest to charges of unlawful underage sex with a 14-year-old boy.
Michelle Christine Solis, 46, entered a no contest plea earlier this week in Butte County Superior Court in Gridley, California, on charges of sexual intercourse, including unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, and sending harmful photographs to a minor .
The charges stem from interactions between Solis and a 14-year-old boy in 2021, when he was an eighth grader at Sycamore Junior High School.
Gridley police obtained evidence showing Solis first followed the teen on social media before sending him messages and explicit photos of himself in the weeks leading up to his graduation.
Michelle Christine Solis, 46, entered a no contest plea earlier this week in Butte County Superior Court in Gridley, California, on charges of sexual intercourse, including unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, and sending harmful photographs to a minor .
The incident is said to have occurred on eighth grade graduation day in 2021 in a locked classroom at Sycamore Junior High School in Northern California.
Solis, a veteran teacher with 20 years of experience, had sex with the boy on his graduation day in a locked classroom, according to a news release from District Attorney Mike Ramsey.
Rumors about Solis circulated in Gridley — a town about 30 miles south of Chico — as did some explicit photos of the middle-aged teacher.
The rumors and explicit material, which eventually reached local parents, prompted police to continue their investigation, including contacting the boy.
Authorities found the couple’s messages and four explicit photos of Solis on the boy’s phone.
Last November, Solis was arrested and released on $15,000 bail.
The rumors and explicit material, which eventually reached local parents, prompted police to continue their investigation, including contacting the boy.
She is free until her sentencing hearing, which is currently scheduled for June 6 at 1:30 p.m.
As part of her newly entered plea of no contest, she agreed to register as a sex offender.
According to the Public Prosecution Service, she also risks a prison sentence of up to four years.
Solis’ case is part of a disturbing trend in the US of female teachers taking legal action over alleged unlawful sexual conduct between themselves and their underage students.
DailyMail.com found that 25 female teachers have been arrested in 16 states in the past 12 months, as the so-called ‘cougars in the classroom’ epidemic begins to take formal form.