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BOY SAYS SUBSTITUTE HAD SEX WITH HIM
By CASEY KNAUPP, Staff Writer
04/12/2005
A 17-year-old testified Tuesday that he and his substitute teacher had
a sexual relationship and used marijuana almost every day for nearly a
year.
Antigone Overstreet, a former substitute for Tyler Independent School
District, pleaded guilty Monday to sexual assault of a child. The
state presented its evidence Tuesday in the first day of her
punishment trial.
The 39-year-old faces two years probation to 20 years in prison for
the second-degree felony.
The victim testified he met Ms. Overstreet at John Tyler High School,
where he was a sophomore, when he was 15. A few months later, at the
age of 16, he went over to her house for the first time and they
smoked marijuana together. The next night he returned and the pair had
sex, he said.
For 10 months, they smoked marijuana and had sexual relations nearly
every day - more than 100 times. They watched pornography together and
used sex toys, he testified.
The victim said he always went over to Ms. Overstreet's house; she
never invited him. Sometimes the drugs they used were his and he had
seen pornographic movies and sex toys before he became involved with
her, he added.
Tyler police Detective John Ragland testified that Ms. Overstreet was
suspended from TISD in January 2004 after she was involved in a car
accident when the boy was a passenger in her vehicle.
Ms. Overstreet told police she was the student's mentor and
continuously denied any romantic involvement, he said.
The defendant's daughter, now 12, said that the victim spent the night
at their house and she saw them smoke "cigars."
Ms. Overstreet's doctor testified she reported smoking marijuana for
the past 20 years.
A probation officer who supervised Ms. Overstreet while she was out on
bond said she tested positive for marijuana six times.
And a lab technician, who was hired to confirm two of the positive
urine analysis, said the second sample, taken about a month after the
first, contained a higher amount of marijuana. The second time also
showed high creatinine, a by-product of human excretion, indicated she
attempted to flush her system with water to pass the drug test.
First Assistant District Attorney Brett Harrison and Assistant DA Joe
Murphy are prosecuting the case.
Ms. Overstreet was arrested Sept. 23 after the victim tried to get
personal property back from his "ex-girlfriend's" house with help from
police. He told police that he and Ms. Overstreet were "dating," Tyler
police officer Chris Moore said at the time of her arrest.
Moore said it did not appear the boy was trying to retaliate against
the woman for the breakup when he contacted police. The boy told
authorities they had relations since Dec. 1, 2003.
School authorities said a criminal background check conducted on Ms.
Overstreet revealed no problems, and there had been no complaints on
her performance as a substitute teacher.
The punishment trial is scheduled to resume Wednesday in Judge Jack
Skeen Jr,'s 241st District Court with evidence presented by defense
attorney Melvin Thompson.
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