HPD: Teacher Accused Of Prostitution
POSTED: Monday, August 18, 2008
UPDATED: 5:50 pm CDT August 18,
2008
HOUSTON -- A Cleveland High School teacher was charged with prostitution after meeting a man in an online chat room and soliciting him in a downtown Houston hotel, police told KPRC Local 2 Monday.Police said Laurie Ann Lewis, 38, was arrested Tuesday at the Four Seasons, 1300 Lamar, in an undercover sting.Investigators said Lewis agreed to meet her client at the hotel as an escort. She was arrested after asking for $300 to perform a sexual act, police said."We opened up a discussion with her in the chat room. She agreed at some point in that discussion for sex for money," said Capt. Bruce Williams of the Houston Police Department. "When she entered the room, the deal was done."Police would not elaborate on the prostitution sting or on Lewis' alleged role as a prostitute."I don't know to what extent she did this job. As far as I'm concerned, she's a teacher that got arrested for prostitution. I don't know that she was a career prostitute," Williams said.The Cleveland Independent School District said Lewis was "placed on paid administrative leave pending resolution of the matter."The school board is expected to decide on her teaching status with the district on Aug. 25.Lewis has worked for the district since August 2006 as a theater teacher and student council sponsor.She was released from the Harris County Jail on $500 bond.Lewis is due back in Harris County Criminal Court on Wednesday for arraignment.
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