Married ex-high faculty instructor McKenna Kindred urged that she and a teenage scholar she was sexually abusing ought to begin utilizing Snapchat to cover their X-rated chats, in line with courtroom docs.
“Hm subsequent time I must relearn Snapchat haha,” Kindred, now 27, texted the 17-year-old boy at one level throughout their tryst, which started when Kindred was his educator at Central Valley Excessive Faculty in Spokane, Washington.
The conniving message got here after the pair had already engaged in a wicked three-and-a-half hour intercourse marathon at Kindred’s marital house in November 2022 – whereas her oblivious husband was away on a searching journey.
“Mother glad I can fulfill you,” the teenager kicked off the textual content thread.
After the instructor favored the message, the boy requested if she used a intercourse toy whereas excited about him.
“I did,” she creepily replied.
“U ought to have video it and put it aside,” the teenager responded, prompting Kindred to suggest that he educate her tips on how to use Snapchat the following time they meet up.
The social media platform is fashionable for permitting customers to ship photographs and movies – or “snaps” – that disappear after viewing.
By that time, the pair had already exchanged a sequence of racy textual content messages, footage and movies on social media for months, relationship again to when the teenager discovered Kindred’s Instagram account in June 2022, in line with courtroom docs.
“When different ladies discuss you in my class I might really feel myself getting mad,” she wrote in a single message.
As rumors about McKenna’s abuse of the boy finally started to unfold across the faculty, the teenager’s mates shared screenshots of the racy messages with faculty officers in December 2022.
The college district positioned Kindred on administrative go away, earlier than she resigned in 2023.
She pleaded responsible to first-degree sexual misconduct – for which she prevented jail time, however was ordered to serve two years of probation, pay $700 in fines and register as a intercourse offender for a decade.
Kindred sobbed whereas apologizing to the teenager in courtroom.
“I do know this previous 12 months has been extremely tough for all concerned. Because of my actions, I’ve misplaced my profession, invaluable friendships, freedoms and have let down numerous individuals who positioned their belief in me,” she mentioned.
The sufferer’s mom, Ashley Beckley, claimed at her sentencing that Kindred started to groom her son when he was 16, and her “abuse of energy” made him unable to complete faculty on campus – affecting his social, emotional and tutorial well-being.
“A light-weight he used to hold has been dimmed,” she mentioned.
Three months later, Kindred and her head-scratchingly devoted husband relocated tons of of miles away to Idaho.
It’s unclear whether or not the disgraced educator has labored since voluntarily surrendering her educating license following an Idaho Requirements Fee probe.
