Updated: 2:29 PM CDT April 17, 2021
PARKER COUNTY, Texas — A fifth-grade teacher was arrested Friday after she admitted to sexually abusing a student for years, according to the Parker County Sheriff’s Office.
Misty Lorene Cato, 43, faces a second-degree charge of improper relationship between educator and student, Sheriff Russ Authier said in a news release.
Authorities said Cato taught at Springtown Intermediate School and was placed on administrative leave once school officials became aware of the allegations.
Springtown school officials said Cato was contracted as a math teacher and the victim was enrolled in the Azle school district at the time of the abuse.