A former Central Texas teacher and coach was sentenced to four years in state prison after pleading guilty to having sex with a 17-year-old female student and engaging in sexual conversations with underage school girls via social media.
Tye Britton Rexrode, 39, was an assistant baseball coach and social studies teacher for two years at the high school in Comfort Independent School District. He was allowed to resign in February 2024 following allegations of sexual misconduct.
Rexrode was arrested in March 2024 and charged with three counts of improper relationship between educator and student, a second-degree felony punishable by 2 to 20 years in prison.
The offense includes sexual contact and sexually explicit communication with a student, regardless of the student’s age.
According to a statement released Friday by Kendall County District Attorney Nicole Bishop, the investigation began on February 1, 2024, with an anonymous report to Comfort High School administrators alleging that Rexrode was engaged in a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student.
The school resource officer, a Kendall County Sheriff’s Office deputy, initiated an investigation and found that Rexrode had multiple sexual encounters with the student over the course of several months at hotels in Kerr County.
The victim told investigators Rexrode first contacted her in November 2023 via the social media app Snapchat, and they met in person for at least two sexual encounters.
The teen said that after a January 2024 encounter, she told Rexrode she was afraid she would get pregnant and he gave her a morning-after pill, which she took.
The DA noted that because the student was 17, which is the age of consent in Texas, Rexrode could only be charged with an improper teacher/student relationship and not sexual assault of a child.
Authorities said Rexrode also sexually groomed multiple underage female students via social media.
His sex-related communications with the girls included discussions about age of consent laws and unsolicited offers to share explicit photographs of himself.
“The messages demonstrated a pattern of predatory behavior and attempts to engage students in sexual discussions,” wrote DA Bishop.
Bishop explained that the teacher’s sentencing resulted from a plea deal that spares the victims the “potentially re-traumatizing experience of testifying against Rexrode in open court” during a public trial.
Rexrode will spend four years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for one charge of improper relationship between educator and student, followed by 10 years of probation for a second charge. The sentences will be served consecutively.
As part of his plea agreement, Rexrode is prohibited from contacting any of his victims, being around teenage girls or in places where they congregate, or coaching any girls’ teams.
State records show that Rexrode’s teaching certificate as an educational aide expired in January 2025 and is under review by the Texas Education Agency.
He is also shown as “under investigation” in the state’s Do Not Hire Registry of individuals not eligible to be employed by a Texas public school.
Hundreds of Texas teachers, coaches, and school employees have been accused of sex crimes involving students and other children in just the past few years.
Thousands of educator sexual misconduct cases have been reported to the state since the TEA began keeping organized records in 2021.
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