PEORIA, Ariz. (KPHO/Gray News) — Two girls who taught at a high school close to Phoenix are accused of sexual misconduct with the same pupil.
Both teachers have been positioned on administrative depart in August 2025 after the allegations got here to mild. One resigned, and the opposite was fired by the school board.
The teachers might quickly face prices after police resubmitted the cases to prosecutors Thursday.
The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office initially despatched the circumstances again to legislation enforcement for extra investigation. No arrests have been made, however detectives stated they consider there’s sufficient proof for prices.
What occurred
According to a virtually 200-page police report, rumors of inappropriate teacher-student relationships circulated at Centennial High School in Peoria for months.
The teachers have been recognized as Haley Beck, 27, and Angela Burlaka, 47.
Burlaka labored on the school for 25 years, and Beck was employed in 2020.
Burlaka is accused of recording movies of herself whereas bare through which she stated the scholar’s identify. The movies ended up on the scholar’s cellphone.
The sufferer’s grandmother known as authorities final July after seeing one of the movies, prompting the investigation.
Claims of sexual misconduct involving one other trainer, 27-year-old Beck, surfaced shortly after. The police report states the sufferer’s mom admitted she knew her son was “having sex with a teacher named ‘Haley Beck.’”
The district’s assertion of prices towards Beck stated she started grooming one of her college students earlier than he turned 18 in December 2024. Detectives consider the sexual harassment occurred throughout his sophomore and junior years, when she was his psychology and sociology trainer.
Investigators claim Beck gave him special treatment in class, did his homework and erroneously improved his grades and attendance file.
Police stated she gave him entry to her automobile, purchased him presents, meals, alcohol and medicines, and paid him greater than $600, calling herself his “sugar momma” and writing that it “felt like straight prostitution.”
The investigation discovered that for about six weeks, Beck and the scholar exchanged greater than 4,000 texts about sexual and criminality.
The teenage boy and his household did not wish to cooperate with detectives on account of considerations it will intrude with faculty athletic scholarships, officers stated.
In the police report, texts present Beck did not like being in comparison with Burlaka.
“I mean yeah I guess but even though our situation is still not right at least we are closer in age,” Beck wrote to the scholar. “I don’t like being compared to Mrs B.”
In a handwritten observe to the scholar discovered throughout a police search at her house, Beck wrote, “for this ‘relationship’ being extremely wrong, I feel like we have really made the most out of it,” and “there is truly no other student (I know, so wrong) that I’d want to do all this with.”
“This was not a relationship,” Jessica Nicely, a toddler abuse prevention specialist, stated. “He was a child, and this was child abuse and child rape.”
Records reveal the school’s principal gave police Beck’s identify after the investigation into Burlaka began. The principal informed authorities he had obtained “multiple complaints from students and staff” about Beck.
“I need these educators and everybody in positions of authority to understand mandatory reporter training doesn’t mean you know something’s going on. It’s that you have a reasonable belief. You suspect something, and clearly they all did. Why didn’t any of them report this a long time ago?” Nicely stated.
Burlaka voluntarily surrendered her Arizona instructing certificates. Beck did not, and final week the Peoria Unified School District Governing Board unanimously voted to fireplace her.
“We send our kids to your schools 10 months a year, five days a week, seven hours a day. So as a parent, I’m glad to see that these pedophiles like Haley Beck are being held accountable as much as possible,” a mum or dad stated throughout public remark on the governing board assembly March 26.
Nicely stated in her 30-year profession, she has not seen a case of two girls perpetrating towards the same male sufferer.
“These women are the 4% because 96% of the time child sexual abusers are men,” Nicely stated. “I feel like when the perpetrator is a woman and the victim’s a boy, people make jokes. It’s not funny. It’s not an achievement. He’s a victim. That is not a relationship they were having. That is rape.”
Peoria police stated the investigation is ongoing and consider there might be extra victims. Beck has till April 8 to request a listening to with the district to dispute her termination, however she has not accomplished in order of April 1.
Statements from the school district and police
A spokesperson for the Peoria Unified School District stated it responded to the state of affairs with acceptable actions.
The Peoria Police Department additionally stated there isn’t a indication there have been any reporting failures on behalf of the school district.
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