{"id":161956,"date":"2026-02-20T00:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/161956\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T00:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:48:10","slug":"florida-teacher-49-accused-of-shacking-up-with-homeless-student-and-getting-him-severely-intoxicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/161956\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida teacher, 49, accused of shacking up with homeless student — and getting him ‘severely intoxicated’"},"content":{"rendered":"

A twisted teacher is accused of sexually assaulting a homeless student who once viewed her as a mother figure, after she moved him into her Florida home and pumped the teen full of alcohol, police said.<\/p>\n

Mackenzie McLean, 49, who taught at Crooms Academy in Sanford, repeatedly molested her student, 18, including \u201cfive to ten times\u201d over a two-month period after he moved in with her in March 2024, according to court documents obtained by People.<\/a> McLean was arrested on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

Shortly after shacking up with the teen, the sicko educator plied him with 12 shots of gin while he played video games with her daughter, the arrest affidavit said.<\/p>\n

\"MugshotMackenzie McLean, 49, was charged with two counts of sexual offense by an authority figure and one count of distribution of a controlled substance Seminole County Mugshots<\/p>\n

Once he was \u201cseverely intoxicated,\u201d McLean told her kid to leave the room before assaulting the teen who had been kicked out of his home.<\/p>\n

The student, who lived with the perverted teacher for nine months, told police he regularly pushed McLean off him while telling her it \u201cwas wrong,\u201d court papers alleged.<\/p>\n

Two months before graduating, the pair allegedly slept in the same bed and drove to school together.<\/p>\n

The teen \u2014 who initially viewed McLean as a mother figure \u2014 told police he \u201cfelt compelled\u201d to endure the abuse or he would \u201cno longer have a place to live or food to eat,\u201d police records show, according to the outlet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A female student,16, also accused the disgraced teacher of giving her and other students illegal substances, including alcohol, marijuana gummies and Adderall, and allegedly flew into a rage \u2013 screaming and slashing herself with a knife \u2013 when the boy moved out in December 2024, cops said.<\/p>\n

\"TheMcLean, who had worked for Seminole County Public Schools for nearly 25 years, was placed on administrative leave following her arrest. Google<\/p>\n

McLean, who had worked for Seminole County Public Schools for nearly 25 years, was placed on administrative leave following her arrest, FOX 35 reported.<\/a> She had taught history, government and economics.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny allegations of misconduct by our staff will be taken seriously and handled quickly,\u201d the school district said in a statement to the outlet.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe safety of our students and staff is our highest priority, and any type of behavior that jeopardizes that safety will not be tolerated in Seminole County Public Schools.\u201d<\/p>\n

McLean was charged with two counts of sexual offense by an authority figure and one count of distribution of a controlled substance, jail records show.<\/p>\n

She is being held on a $35,000 bond and is due back in court on March 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A twisted teacher is accused of sexually assaulting a homeless student who once viewed her as a mother…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4864,28,30,29,27862,17869,3384,4030,4278],"class_list":{"0":"post-161956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-arrests","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-sexual-assaults","13":"tag-sexual-predators","14":"tag-students","15":"tag-teachers","16":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}