A pregnant Ohio school superintendent who admitted having sex with a 16-year-old student had been filmed getting intimate in her office — and was caught when he showed it off to friends, it has emerged.
Laura Amero, 35, was last week sentenced to 10 years in prison, the maximum sentence allowed under state law, after she admitted to having sex with one student and trying to get intimate with another 16-year-old while she was their principal at Windham High School from 2015 to 2017.
She revealed in court that she is pregnant, due next month — with the judge allowing her to delay incarceration until April, two weeks after the expected birth. She will register as a sex offender once out.
Now recordings of her police interviews have revealed shocking new details — showing that she was found out because at least some of her depraved acts were filmed in her office, according to Fox 8 News.
Amero was picked up after a concerned parent reported her to police in March last year, with officers asking her about an intimate video being passed around by students at Windham High School.
“I heard there was a video too. And that he showed it to people on the basketball team,” Amero told the officers in her interviews, Fox 8 said.
She initially claimed she was not the woman in the explicit video — before admitting it two days later and begging for help to make it “go away,” offering to resign, the report says of the interviews.
“It was a weak moment, it was stupid,” Amero told the officers. “I’m not a predator, I’m not,” Amero said, according to the tapes.
Faced with the damning evidence — which also included incriminating messages in texts and Snapchats with the boys — Amero finally admitted the sex assaults, the report said.
Amero — who was promoted to superintendent of the school’s district after the attacks — stepped down last June, two months after her arrest. She tearfully apologized in court after pleading guilty in November.