Teen Exposes Sexual Relations With Teacher After Failing Blackmail Attempt

A 16-year-old student exposed an alleged sexual relationship with his teacher after she refused to pay him $140 in a Memphis suburb. According to records, the teenager blackmailed the Tennessee educator and threatened her to pay up the money.

The records, obtained Wednesday by local media WHBQ, include screenshots of nearly 240 text messages between Jasmine Edmonds, 24, and an unidentified teen she previously taught at Trezevant High School in Memphis. The alleged sex acts between Edmonds and the teen took place at her apartment in Raleigh, a suburb of Memphis.

In one of the messages, the teen threatened her that he will speak out about their illicit romps if she refused to pay the money.

“You Said We Had A Bet & If You Lie Our Little Secret Is Going To Be Out There,” the message read, according to a screenshot obtained by the station. “That’s Not A Threat It’s A Promise.” The message continued: “Then You Not Trying To Answer Or Text Back I Got Proof of Everything So 140 Tomorrow Or Your Career Over On My Grandma.”

Local media reported that the teenager was expelled from the school in March 2018 for throwing rocks at Edmonds’ car and texting with his teacher.

Tennessee’s State Board of Education released other records Wednesday, including a statement from the high school’s basketball coach indicating, that Edmonds used to wait for the teen after practice, adding that he [coach] assumed the female teacher was giving the teen rides home.

The teen’s mother said that she had invited Edmonds to her house for Thanksgiving because the teacher didn’t have any relatives of her own. She also said that she was unaware of her son and the teacher's romantic relationship.

According to reports, Edmonds was sexually involved with the student from November 2017 to January 2018.

The 24-year-old algebra teacher now faces two counts of sexual battery by an authority figure. She was not indicted until November last year and was recently released after posting $50,000 bond, the Memphis Commercial Appeal reports. Her next court appearance is scheduled for February.