A Temple High School substitute teacher was charged with six felony sex crimes involving multiple male students she connected with via social media, including at least one 16-year-old boy.
Keara Michelle Brady, 30, was arrested and charged with four counts of improper relationship between educator and student and two counts of sexual assault of a child. Both offenses are second-degree felonies punishable by 2 to 20 years in prison.
Improper relationship applies to sexual activity with any K-12 student regardless of their age.
Sexual assault is nonconsensual sex (rape) and applies to any victims younger than 17, as under Texas law they are legally incapable of consent due to their age.
Brady was arrested by San Antonio police on a warrant issued out of Bell County and booked into the Bexar County Jail on July 13.
Bell County court records show the assaults occurred in April. Charges were filed in June.
An arrest affidavit obtained by KCENTV states that the Temple Police Department received an April 20 tip from Bell County Crime Stoppers alleging Brady was involved in a sexual relationship with a student.
Police said Brady denied the allegations, but investigators discovered social media messages exchanged between the teacher and a 16-year-old Temple High School student.
The boy told police he had sexual relations with Brady after she taught as a substitute in one of his classes then shared her Snapchat and Instagram accounts with students.
According to the affidavit, the student said he met Brady at her apartment in Temple on April 14, where she raped the boy.
Police also interviewed a 17-year-old student who said he had a sexual encounter with Brady and two other students identified in the affidavit as victims.
Brady allegedly told students to deny knowing her if questioned by police.
Temple ISD said in a statement that Brady worked as a “temporary substitute” at Temple High School for “a few months” and was “permanently removed” from the substitute list on April 22 after police notified the district about the allegations.
“We take all matters of student safety very seriously,” said Temple ISD Superintendent Bobby Ott. “If found guilty of these charges, the local justice system should make an example of her and punish to the fullest extent of the law.”
Online records show Brady was also a substitute teacher at Jubilee Academies, a public charter school with locations across Texas, in the 2024-25 school year.
Brady does not hold a Texas teaching certificate.
Another Temple High School employee, security guard Jaylin Bryant, was arrested in April and charged with sexual assault of a child after he was accused of raping a 16-year-old female student.
Bryant was released from jail on an $85,000 bond but was soon arrested (and released) twice more—first on a felony drug possession charge ($60,000 bond), then for assault of a family member causing bodily injury, a Class A misdemeanor ($2,000 bond).
In just the past few years, hundreds of Texas school employees have been accused of sex crimes involving students and other children, and thousands have been reported to the Texas Education Agency for sexual misconduct.
The TEA’s Educator Misconduct Reporting Dashboard shows the agency is currently investigating more than 2,500 sexual misconduct complaints and opening an average of 254 new cases each month.
