
Former Logos Christian Academy Teacher Charged in Oregon With Sex Crimes Involving Student
Andrea Baber, 29, a former teacher at Logos Christian Academy in Oregon, faces criminal charges after her husband reportedly found her at home with a student, according to court records. The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release that Baber was arrested on Friday on alleged sex crimes.
According to a probable cause affidavit filed in Douglas County Circuit Court and obtained by The Register-Guard on Monday, Baber is accused of having sex with a 15-year-old student multiple times and sending him photographs. The affidavit says the relationship began last year and that the two allegedly had sex once or twice a week at her home. Her husband told authorities he found his wife and the teenager at home, where they were “partially unclothed,” the newspaper reported. The affidavit also says the two were photographed together in Baber’s bed.
The student told detectives that Baber occasionally gave him marijuana and alcohol, according to records. The two first began flirting at school, later progressed to kissing at the movies, and then had sex, the records show. The sheriff’s office began an investigation into the relationship on Dec. 12 after being alerted to it. Adults in positions of authority over young people are charged with protecting them from harm (Mark 9:42).
Baber faces charges of third-degree sodomy, third-degree rape, contributing to the sexual delinquency of a minor, first-degree online sexual corruption of a child, and unlawful delivery of marijuana to a person under 18. These are charges, not findings of guilt. It is unclear whether she has a lawyer.
Jail records show Baber was released from custody on Monday. She could not be reached for comment on Tuesday, and her husband did not immediately return a request for comment. Logos Christian Academy also did not immediately return a request for comment on Tuesday, and it is unclear when Baber stopped working there.
Police described Baber as a former teacher at the school. According to The Register-Guard, which cited her biography on the school’s website, she taught language and literature, writing and speech communication. The biography had been taken down before Tuesday morning.
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