UPDATE: We Have Teacher Laurie Anne Lewis's Mug Shot Along With Addition Details of Her Arrest: Cop Says "I Don't Know That She Was a Career Prostitute!" - Here's more from Click2Houston:A Cleveland High School teacher was charged with prostitution after meeting a man in an online chat room and soliciting him in a downtown Houston hotel, police told KPRC Local 2 Monday. Police said Laurie Ann Lewis, 38, was arrested Tuesday at the Four Seasons, 1300 Lamar, in an undercover sting.
Investigators said Lewis agreed to meet her client at the hotel as an escort. She was arrested after asking for $300 to perform a sexual act, police said. We opened up a discussion with her in the chat room. She agreed at some point in that discussion for sex for money," said Capt. Bruce Williams of the Houston Police Department. "When she entered the room, the deal was done."
Police would not elaborate on the prostitution sting or on Lewis' alleged role as a prostitute. "I don't know to what extent she did this job. As far as I'm concerned, she's a teacher that got arrested for prostitution. I don't know that she was a career prostitute," Williams said.
EARLIER POST: Well, at least she wasn't caught having sex with a student . . . at least, not for free, anyways. At right, the only picture we could find of Laurie Anne Lewis. Here's more on the story from KHOU:
Cleveland High School theatre teacher and Student Council sponsor Laurie Anne Lewis was arrested on Tuesday on charges of prostitution in downtown Houston. According to the Houston Police Department, 38-year-old Lewis was arrested in an ongoing undercover operation. Since Lewis' arrest was part of a continuing investigation, the offense report regarding her arrest has not been made public. But Kerry Cowart, the superintendent of Cleveland ISD said he spoke to Lewis on Friday afternoon and confirmed the allegations. Cowart said that when he asked if she was arrested for prostitution, Lewis admitted it was true.
Lewis was immediately placed on paid administrative leave pending resolution of the charges. One teen on the student council describe Lewis as an excellent teacher and that this news surprised everyone. "She was role model to me and I really didn't expect her to do that because she was always on to us and I just thought that she would be different," said Kala Patton, a Junior at Cleveland High School.
If teachers were just paid what they are worth they wouldn't have to do what she did.
ReplyDeleteI have 300 dollars. Hope she works this out. I would like to talk to her.
ReplyDeleteProstitution should be legal. I can't help but wonder how many real criminals like rapists, robbers, murders and child molesters got away because the police were wasting their time on this case.
ReplyDeleteI aggree! There should be more "How To Catch a Predator" stings and less Pretty Woman stings. They're just trying to make a living. There are rapists and killers out there that need to be dealt with!
ReplyDeleteI feel her pain... I like how they put "role model" in quotations. Perhaps, this backward ass legislative system needs to consider the reasons why a teacher would even have to prostitute in the first place. I am in the same boat and going thru the legal system now. I was charged with prostituiton after an undercover female officer responded to my ad for sexy male maid service on CL. I went to the same hotel and she totally led the conversation on. I never agreed to sex for money but the prosecutor refuses to dismiss the case. Also, they erased portions of the audio violating my civil rights which would be another 1-2k for a forensic expert.I have already spent 5k on an attorney and now he wants another 5k for a trial which I do not have. I have a degree, worked visible and responsible corporate jobs, served our freaking country and will likely have to accept the deferred adjudication with the impact this will have on the rest of my career.
ReplyDeleteHelloooooo TX, get your head out of the dark ages and stop squeezing the people for money WE DO NOT HAVE!!
If anyone could use a very intellgent, dependable and hard working person out there, please respond!!
And Laurie...keep your head up high!!!