Charges: Emails revealed Pacelli teacher’s ‘sexual relationship’ with teen student

Austin Daily Herald
October 8, 2014

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A former Pacelli High School teacher allegedly had a sexual relationship with one of her students. Mary Gilles, 28, was charged Tuesday with six counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct after she allegedly slept with a 17-year-old student several times.

According to a court complaint, a Pacelli staffer saw Gilles and the victim alone in the school auditorium late last Friday. A Pacelli administrator told police she had a “gut feeling” about the two and searched the victim’s school email account. She found a password for the student’s personal email, where staff discovered “numerous emails containing sexual relationship content.”

Detectives reviewed the emails between the victim and Gilles, some of which revealed Gilles could be pregnant.

The victim and Gilles told police they had slept together four or five times between February and June, and continued to have sex in September, according to the complaint.

Gilles was arrested at her home Monday and was suspended from teaching. She was fired Tuesday. She had taught high school math.