A married Oklahoma substitute teacher was sentenced to four years in prison for making out with a male student and trying to solicit sex from him.
Emma Delaney Hancock, 28, was handed down the stiff sentence for sending an underage schoolboy nude photos and videos and making out with him inside the school in Wellston on several occasions, according to KFOR.
Hancock maintains that the boy lied and she has not done anything wrong.
Despite her pleas, she was convicted in October.
The victim’s family said they were happy with the sentencing, but are looking forward to putting it behind them as the victim has already lost ‘too much.’
‘So, his entire high school years were online. So, we missed all that. The sports events, the prom, walking across the stage,’ a family member told KFOR.
Hancock will have to register as a sex offender and she faces a separate lawsuit brought by the boy’s family, according to KFOR.
According to the criminal affidavit, Hancock, a former teacher in the Wellston Public School district, began texting the 15-year-old in October 2022 to send him a school assignment.
Emma Delaney Hancock, 28, will spend four years in prison after she sent an underage schoolboy nude photos and videos to and made out with him inside the school on several occasions
Hancock maintains that the boy lied and she has not done anything wrong
A few weeks later, he sent a shirtless photo of himself to Hancock via Snapchat, documents show.
Hancock responded by saying: ‘Are we sending half-naked pictures now?’
The teen responded: ‘I don’t know, are we?’
She then replied: ‘Are you trying to get me to lose my job?’
The affidavit said Hancock and the teen began exchanging nude photos and videos of sex acts more frequently.
It later escalated into Hancock and the teen kissing each other on two occasions while in classrooms.
Hancock is also accused of touching the teen inappropriately the second time they kissed, according to the court filing.
According to the criminal affidavit, Hancock, a former teacher in the Wellston Public School district, began texting the 15-year-old in October 2022 to send him a school assignment before their relationship escalated
Hancock is married to the town’s Chief of Police Alfred Hancock
The affidavit also said that at one point, the victim told his friend about the relationship with Hancock.
When the other student asked Hancock if this was true, she initially denied it but then admitted that it was true, the affidavit said.
She allegedly told the student it would ‘not amount to anything because they were not going to get caught.’
Hancock is married to the town’s Chief of Police, Alfred Hancock.
