{"id":246626,"date":"2026-04-12T18:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T18:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/246626\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T18:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T18:35:08","slug":"texas-teacher-admits-to-sex-with-teens-after-shes-spotted-kissing-young-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/246626\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas teacher admits to sex with teens after she&#8217;s spotted kissing young student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A high school teacher has pleaded guilty to having sex with two teenage boys after police received a tip-off that she was spotted kissing a 16-year-old student.<\/p>\n<p>Shelby Dawn Lashombe, 25, knew that both of the boys were under the age of consent and had been family friends with one of them for years before she started the twisted affair, according to arrest documents\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kwtx.com\/2026\/04\/10\/former-central-texas-teacher-pleads-guilty-improper-sexual-relationship-with-two-teens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">seen by KWTX<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Neither of the boys was a student at Valley Mills High School, where Lashombe was teaching at the time of her arrest last September.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39064801\" width=\"590\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/texas-teacher-shelby-lashombe-arrested-125513163.jpg\" alt=\"Mugshot of Shelby Lashombe.\" class=\"wp-image-39064801\"  \/>Texas teacher Shelby Dawn Lashombe pleaded guilty to having sex with two teenage boys. McLennan County Sheriff\u00e2s Office<\/p>\n<p>McLennan County Sheriff\u2019s Office received a tip that the teacher was seen kissing a 16-year-old boy, according to arrest documents.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager confirmed that he had sexual intercourse with Lashombe, adding that \u201cit has happened more than once,\u201d and the teacher knew he was underage, as stated in an arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n<p>Lashombe later admitted to detectives that she was intimate with the teenager, and said that she had been seeing him for the past six months, the docs reveal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShelby stated she had been friends with the juvenile\u2019s family for years, knowing his age and that he was a student,\u201d the arrest affidavit charges.<\/p>\n<p>Lashombe also admitted to having sex with a second boy who was under the age of 17, and who attended a different school to the first victim.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.33333333;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39064802\" width=\"787\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1855982811248265-set-pb-100063719016267-125513162.jpg\" alt=\"Valley Mills Junior High School building exterior with an American flag flying.\" class=\"wp-image-39064802\"  \/>Lashombe taught at Valley Mills High School in Valley Mills, Texas. Valley Mills Independent School District \/ Facebook<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, prosecutors recommended that the disgraced former educator be placed on deferred probation and fined $1,000 after pleading guilty to two counts of improper relationship between educator and student.<\/p>\n<p>Both charges are second-degree felonies, which each carry up to 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>In exchange for Lashombe\u2019s guilty pleas, two counts of sexual assault against a child\u2014also second-degree felonies\u2014were dropped by the McLennan County District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>19th State District Judge Thomas West ordered a presentence investigation by probation officers, which he will consider before deciding to accept the plea bargain.<\/p>\n<p>Lashombe\u2019s sentencing is set for June 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A high school teacher has pleaded guilty to having sex with two teenage boys after police received a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4028,294,8127,27,29,28,734],"class_list":{"0":"post-246626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-arrests","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-teachers","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-texas-headlines","13":"tag-texas-news","14":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}