Docs: Greenwood teacher charged for child seduction

GREENWOOD, Ind. (WISH) — A Greenwood High School teacher is facing felony charges aft being accused of having an inappropriate narration with an underage student.

Matthew Hockersmith, 40, faces 3 counts of kid seduction by a kid attraction worker. Hockersmith, a subject teacher and transverse state manager astatine the school, was placed connected administrative permission Monday. He was arrested connected the aforesaid day. On Tuesday afternoon, the Greenwood Community School Corporation said it is initiating the process to terminate Hockersmith.

According to tribunal documents, constabulary began investigating Dec. 7 aft receiving accusation regarding a “possible inappropriate integer and idiosyncratic communication” betwixt Hockersmith and a Greenwood High School student. Greenwood constabulary spoke with the girl’s parents connected Dec. 8. On Dec. 13, detectives acquired the girl’s telephone for a forensic examination.

Detectives said they reviewed messages wherever Hockersmith and the pupil notation to each different arsenic hubby and wife. They besides exchanged nude photographs, according to tribunal documents.

In interviews with detectives, Hockersmith and the pupil admitted to having sex.

“I asked if the intersexual encounters were consensual betwixt her and Hockersmith,” tribunal documents state. “She said that internally she didn’t privation to, but she told Hockersmith yes erstwhile they had sex.”

According to tribunal documents, they told detectives they had enactment successful Hockersmith’s conveyance and astatine his residence. Detectives asked the pupil if thing carnal happened connected schoolhouse grounds. She stated that they had been making retired successful his schoolroom “every day, and had been doing truthful for sometime,” according to tribunal documents. She told investigators the narration began successful October.

Online tribunal records bash not yet database an archetypal tribunal day for Hockersmith.