A former Seminole County teacher is accused of having sex with his then-13-year-old student, after dating the girl’s mother to get close to the teenager and then teaching her Morse Code so they could message secretly.
Daniel Philip Le Lievre, 41, who formerly taught at Tuskawilla Middle School in Oviedo, was arrested Monday on charges including sexual battery, according to the Oviedo Police Department.
His partially blacked out arrest report shows both the mother and daughter accused Le Lievre of grooming the student and of having a romantic relationship with the mother to get closer to the 13-year-old. He had sex with the student during the 2023-24 winter holiday break, an incident that happened at his home when the mother and her children were spending the night at the teacher’s house, the report said.
The student went to the bathroom in the middle of the night. She told police Le Lievre followed her into the bathroom, told her to take her clothes off, had sex with her and told her not to tell anyone. She was 13 at the time, the report said.
The mother and daughter spoke to police in February about what happened.
The mother dated Le Lievre from around October 2023 until January 2024 and would sometimes spend the night at Le Lievre’s home with her children.
The mother caught Le Lievre and her daughter talking on the phone in the middle of the night several times and saw the two of them hold hands while at Disney Springs. The mother and the teacher later broke up, causing Le Lievre to say he only dated the mother to get close to her daughter, according to the report.
The mother and the student said Le Lievre groomed her by spending time alone with her in his classroom before, during and after school, where they’d hold hands and hug, and he would sometimes rub her thighs. He kept a drawer for her in his classroom desk that held blankets and perfume. He also changed the student’s schedule and added her to another one of his classes.
The report said Le Lievre taught the student Morse Code so they could discreetly communicate and created “throwaway” email addresses and websites for the same reason. He would ask her to delete records of their talks.
Oviedo police arrested Le Lievre at his home Monday. He declined to speak to police without a lawyer.
The arrest report says Le Lievre was investigated twice in 2024 by Seminole County Public Schools. Both investigations concluded he violated policies relating to “student abuse, abandonment and neglect” and “relationships with students.”
SCPS didn’t immediately respond to questions Tuesday about Le Lievre’s arrest, if the policy violations involved the same student in his criminal case and when and how Le Lievre’s employment with the district ended.