A former teacher for Barbers Hill Independent School District was arrested Tuesday and charged with having an “improper” sexual relationship with a student—one year after a grand jury indicted her for the felony child sex crime.
Molly Colleen Spears, now 35, was a language arts teacher at Barbers Hill High School in 2023 when she was accused of having sex with a student.
Spears was indicted by a Chambers County grand jury on February 8, 2024.
According to the indictment, Spears engaged in “sexual contact and sexual intercourse” with a male high school student and solicited the boy to meet for sex “by text message and through a commercial online service.”
Spears’ attorney told KPRC 2 News in Houston that he does not know why the Chambers County Sheriff’s Office waited a year to serve the arrest warrant on Spears.
The now-former teacher was arrested on February 11 and charged with improper relationship between educator and student, a second-degree felony punishable by 2 to 20 years in prison.
She was booked into the Chambers County Jail and released the same day on a $50,000 bond.
According to a June 2023 statement from the school district, “Molly Spears worked as a high school teacher for Barbers Hill ISD from August 2021 to June 2023. She resigned earlier this month. Per policy, the district will not confirm any internal investigation into any matter.”
State records show Spears was first certified to teach English Language Arts in 2018. Her teaching certificate is listed as “inactive” as of September 2024 and is under review by the Texas Education Agency.
In just the past few years, hundreds of Texas teachers have been accused of sex crimes involving students and other children.
