2 high school teachers in Peoria accused of sexual conduct with same student

PEORIA, AZ (AZFamily) — Two ladies who taught at Centennial High School in Peoria are accused of sexual conduct with the same teenage boy, in accordance with police.

Both teachers had been positioned on administrative go away in August 2025 after allegations got here to gentle. One resigned and the opposite was fired by the school board. Despite a police investigation, no arrests have been made.

Peoria police submitted prices towards each teachers to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office. Haley Beck is accused of pandering and Angela Burlaka is accused of furnishing obscene materials to minors. Prosecutors despatched the case again to legislation enforcement, requesting extra investigation.

Burlaka labored on the school for 25 years, and Beck was employed in 2020. Burlaka voluntarily surrendered her Arizona educating certificates. Beck didn’t, 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 guardian stated throughout public remark on the governing board assembly March 26.

The district’s assertion of prices towards Beck says she started grooming one of her college students earlier than he turned 18 in December 2024. Detectives consider the sexual harassment went on throughout her sophomore and junior years, when she was his psychology and sociology trainer.

Investigators claim Beck gave him special treatment in classdid his homework and erroneously improved his grades and attendance file.

Police say she gave him entry to her automobile, purchased him items, 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, they exchanged greater than 4,000 texts about sexual and criminality.

“I’m not sure I’ve ever had a case in my 30 years of two females, perpetrating against the same male victim,” he stated Jessica Nicely, a child abuse prevention specialist.

“It’s filling a need for attention, power, control, revenge and then it can seem excessive or almost obsessive,” he stated (*2*). “They do a lot of sort of distorted thinking and manipulation of the facts, even as they’re presenting them to themselves to make their behavior seem acceptable or OK.”

Nicely stated the case is very uncommon.

“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 say the investigation is ongoing and consider there may very well be extra victims. Beck has till April 8 to request a listening to with the district to dispute her termination, however she has not completed in order of April 1.

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