Nearly two dozen criminal charges were filed Thursday against a middle school teacher in West Jordan accused of grooming and then sexually abusing a former student who told police he viewed her as a “mother figure.”
Alisha Marie George, 40, is charged in 3rd District Court with attempted rape and four counts of forcible sodomy, first-degree felonies; 12 counts of forcible sexual abuse, a second-degree felony; distributing pornographic material, a third-degree felony; and four counts of unlawful kissing of a child, a class A misdemeanor.
Court documents indicate that additional victims have come forward, and more charges could be filed against her.
Utah middle school teacher faces 22 charges in alleged sex abuse of student
A teacher and volleyball coach at Hawthorn Academy in West Jordan was charged Thursday with 22 crimes accusing her of sexually abusing a middle school student. Prosecutors believe there may be additional victims.
Alisha Marie George, 40, a teacher and volleyball coach at the K-9 Hawthorn Academy in West Jordan, Utah, met the boy when he was just 12 years old, earned his trust, and stole his innocence, charging documents filed Thursday alleged.
The victim, now 15, told police George was a “monster” because “at a time in his life when he needed someone the most, [she] stepped up but took advantage of him.”
He first met the teacher in 2023, when he was in the seventh grade, and recalled George helping him on the volleyball team.
The next year, when he was 13, and “struggling” at home, George emerged as a “mother figure” who was “always there for him,” according to charging documents.
But then, during Christmas break that year, the accused pervy teacher made out with him in her car after driving him home from a trip to the cinema with other teachers and students.
George only stopped the sickening behavior when the boy’s mother — and a friend of hers — walked out of the garage, the docs allege.
The abuse allegedly escalated from there and included oral sex.
Much of it occurred at the boy’s home after George offered to help out while his mother recovered from surgery in the hospital, according to the charging documents.
When his teacher allegedly told him not to tell anyone about what they were doing, he realized he was “at the point of no return,” he told police.
He also told cops he began to worry that George would get upset if she saw him speaking with other females at school.
The pair allegedly had their last sexual encounter in July 2024 in George’s car.
On his birthday later that year, she reached out to him, but he told her not to message him again and blocked her on social media, the docs state.
‘Monster’ middle school teacher accused of sexually abusing student who saw her as ‘mother figure’ arrested, charged
Alisha Marie George, 40, a teacher and volleyball coach at the K-9 Hawthorn Academy in West Jordan, Utah, met the boy when he was just 12 years old.
