Pick Me Up  |  30th March 2017
PREGNANT BY HER PUPIL, 13
All through her life, Alexandria Vera had been a hard worker. She’d held down jobs since the age of 14, bought her first home at 21 and put herself through college. Beautiful as well as bright, by 2015, she was working as an English teacher at Stovall Middle School, Houston, Texas, and appeared to have a
promising career ahead of her. Then, age 24, she began a relationship with one of her 13-year-old pupils. Vera met the boy when teaching a summer-school
class and, once term started in September, their relationship became sexual. Bizarrely, instead of reporting Vera to authorities, the child’s family accepted that the pair were a couple. They welcomed Vera into the family, even going as
far as pretending that she was dating the pupil’s father to cover up the truth from people they knew. And the following January, Vera made the extraordinary announcement, that she was pregnant with the teenager’s baby.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Pick Me Up 30th March 2017.