At the time of the incident, Sifuentes taught<\/a> English at the High School for Law and Justice in Houston Independent School District, where he reportedly was an \u201coff-period\u201d teacher and a chess club sponsor.<\/p>\n Local news outlet ABC13<\/a> reports that the former student originally met Sifuentes in 2022 when she was a junior in high school, but they did not begin their sexual relationship or have any \u201cinappropriate conversations\u201d until she was 18.<\/p>\n The former student told investigators that they had flirted previously, with records showing she was allegedly trying to get Sifuentes to notice her.<\/p>\n After their first sexual encounter in March 2024, the former student said that she and Sifuentes allegedly had sex eight additional times over the course of three months.<\/p>\n The two allegedly exchanged more than 400 messages, including nude photos and videos.<\/p>\n In a statement, Houston ISD said the district was aware \u201cof the arrest of a staff member in connection with alleged misconduct\u201d and as soon as the allegations came to the attention of the district, \u201cthe individual was immediately removed from the classroom and has not been on campus, around students, or involved in school activities since that time.\u201d<\/p>\n The district also explained that both HISD Police and district administration are investigating the matter.<\/p>\n According to court records, Sifuentes has posted his bond and has a court date set for August.<\/p>\n State records show<\/a> that Sifentes has held a Texas Educator Certificate for Social Studies and English Language Arts and Reading since May 2023, and for English as a Second Language since January 2024. All three are listed as having a \u201cvalid\u201d status.\u00a0 <\/p>\n In just the past few years, hundreds of Texas school employees have been accused of sex crimes<\/a> involving students and other children, and thousands have been reported<\/a> to the Texas Education Agency for sexual misconduct.<\/p>\n \n Addie Hovland is a journalist for Texas Scorecard. She hails from South Dakota and is passionate about spreading truth. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Houston teacher has been charged with two counts of improper relationship with a student. The charge is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[127763,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-400954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-bad-apples","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400954","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=400954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785276127_880_addie-writer-150x150.jpg\")
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