We all appreciate teachers who go the extra mile, but a middle school teacher in Texas went a little further than that. Felicia Smith, 42, has been charged with performing a full-blown, strip-club-style lap dance on a 15-year-old student for his birthday—in front of the entire class.
The stunning sexual immorality took place at Stovall Middle School in Houston. Smith told police that the other students encouraged her to perform the provocative dance. Smith has been charged with a felony.
According to court documents, Smith allegedly had the boy sit in a chair in the front of the classroom as she danced to music and touched him in various ways I won’t repeat in this column.
Court documents indicate the four-minute illicit dance, described as a “full contact lap dance,” was caught on tape and ended with Smith giving the teen a hug and saying, “I love you, baby. Happy birthday.”
Sexual relationships between students and teachers are nothing new, but they are making news more often these days.
Just yesterday, a former New Hampshire math teacher was indicted on charges of having a sexual relationship with a student at Stevens High School in Claremont. Christopher LeBlanc, 29, was originally charged with four counts of felonious sexual assault on a 14-year-old girl.
In Dallas earlier this month, a Princeton High School teacher was found having a relationship with a student, even performing oral sex on the boy in her office, according to an affidavit.
A Florida teacher made news last week. Jennifer Fichter, 29, was jailed after allegations of a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student at Central Florida Aerospace Academy. She’s facing 20 counts of unlawful activity with a minor.
San Leandro, Calif., police said in a statement that Leon Chang, 27, surrendered to San Jose police earlier this month. The Alameda County district attorney’s office charged him with statutory rape and arranging a meeting with a minor for lewd purposes. Chang is accused of having an ongoing sexual relationship with a student at San Leandro High School.
The headlines go on and on, highlighting case after case. Paul the apostle may have put it this way: “It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles” (1 Cor. 5:1).
Paul was well-versed in the manifestations of sexual immorality in his day. Doubtless, he was familiar with women who dressed inappropriately in church—though today’s women showing cleavage in church probably take the cake. Paul probably heard gossip about orgies. And he offered strong warnings against sexual immorality of all types. But I bet he never imagined a teacher giving a lap dance to a teenaged boy in a classroom.
I may sound like a broken record, but we need to pray for our youth. Today’s educators, along with the media and other largely wicked influences, are molding their minds. In the case of Felicia Smith, they are doing much, much more than that. We need to pray—and do more than pray. We need to teach our children, who are coming of age in a sex-saturated culture, to, as Paul told the church at Corinth, “flee sexual immorality” (1 Cor. 6:18).
For all the talk about homosexuality, the truth of the matter is that it’s not just the homosexuals who will not inherit the kingdom of God. Inspired by the Holy Spirit, Paul also listed the unrighteous, fornicators, idolaters and adulterers on that list in 1 Corinthians 6:9. This is no time to ease up on the intercession. Today’s youth is the future of the church. It’s time for the apostle Pauls of today to arise and bring loving correction even as the intercessors cry out against the onslaught of immoral spirits attacking the next generation.
Jennifer LeClaire is news editor at Charisma. She is also the author of several books, including The Making of a Prophet. You can email Jennifer at [email protected] or visit her website here. You can also join Jennifer on Facebook or follow her on Twitter.
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