A Wisconsin teacher is facing a slew of felony child sex charges involving several teen boys, including two she allegedly tried to coerce amid her ongoing investigation.
Former Riverview Elementary School educational assistant Anna Marie Crocker, 33, was arrested last month for allegedly sending a 13-year-old Kenosha County boy inappropriate messages that included videos of herself performing sex acts, WITI reports.
The victim told investigators he initially believed the teacher had sent him a workout video, but reported the messages to police when he opened them. The teen did not respond, telling police he was “too young for that” and worried because he heard Crocker had “raped” another teen.
The Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department searched Crocker’s phone, and found not only the videos sent to the 13-year-old, but also hundreds of messages between the teacher and teen boys on Snapchat.
In one of those conversations with a 16-year-old the day before her Oct. 10 arrest, Crocker allegedly solicited sex from the child, and set a date for Oct. 11 at her home. The 16-year-old told police the two talked about sex but never “went through with it.”
Crocker was fired by the Silver Lake-Salem Joint 1 School District board during a special meeting on Oct. 14. She was hired as a substitute teacher in 2020 and became a full-time educational assistant at Riverview Elementary the next year, according to the news site.
The alleged incidents involved her teen son’s friends, and current and former students at her school.
The most recent allegations follow others that stemmed from a sleepover at her home in January, with a then 12-year-old boy reporting he had nonconsensual sex with Crocker, WISN reports.
The child told his mother “I thought I would never have to think about it again.”
The criminal complaint alleges the 12-year-old was asleep in Crocker’s basement when the former teacher woke him up, removed his pants and sexually assaulted him in front of other kids.
“He told her repeatedly to get off of him, but she would not listen,” according to the criminal complaint cited by WISN.
Crocker texted the victim months later to request the boy apologize to her “for what happened in the basement,” which the victim viewed as Crocker “trying to make him feel guilty” and prevent him from discussing the incident, according to investigators.
Another 14-year-old boy also reported he and Crocker exchanged “sexual chats and pictures” on Snapchat before Crocker sexually assaulted him in a parking lot in August, WITI reports.
“In an interview with a detective, the complaint states Crocker admitted to receiving a sexual video from the 14-year-old victim and saving it,” according to the news site. “He also admitted that she sent the video to a student at that victim’s school. The detective seized and searched the phone, which included the video in a password-protected section of the phone.”
Crocker now faces a total of seven criminal charges. They include first-degree child sexual assault, possession of child pornography and sexual exploitation of a child for the initial incidents, and exposing genitals, exposing a child to harmful material, child enticement, and exposing a child to harmful descriptions for the more recent allegations.
Crocker could be sentenced to more than 100 years in prison if convicted and sentenced to the maximum on all counts, The Mirror reports.
Crocker remains in the Kenosha County Jail on a $500,000 bond, scheduled for a preliminary hearing on Nov. 22.
