A North Dakota middle school teacher who had students call her Kim Kardashian allegedly sent hundreds of nude Snapchats to two teen boys and had sex with at least one of them.
Shannon Moser, who has four children with her church pastor husband, was charged on Monday with luring a minor and sex-related crimes involving the two male students aged 15 and 16.
Police received an anonymous tip last month that Moser, a science teacher at Liberty Middle School, allegedly had sex with the 16-year-old boy in Rendezvous Park in West Fargo.
Additional tips then came in claiming that the 37-year-old had sent the same boy sexually explicit Snapchat videos and photos.
As part of their month-long investigation, police interviewed the boy but he initially denied having sex with Moser, according to court documents obtained by Duluth News Tribune.
That student later admitted to police that Moser was a family friend and she had allegedly started sending him the nude Snapchats two months ago.
Moser allegedly picked him up last month and drove to the park before pulling over on a gravel road where they had sex.
The student told police the Snapchats then continued but he declined to have sex with her when she allegedly asked on another occasion.
A second boy, aged 15, also told police that Moser had allegedly been sending him explicit photos via Snapchat for a year.
He said he never engaged in physical contact with the teacher, but claims he did receive Snapchat videos of Moser and her husband having sex.
Moser, who had been a teacher at Liberty Middle School for a year, resigned on July 12 – the same day police notified the district of their investigation.
According to school records, some students had complained that others were being allowed to refer to Moser as Kim Kardashian.
Moser was an active member of the River City Church where her husband Brett was a pastor. Brett agreed to be placed on administrative leave in light of his wife’s arrest.
The church issued a statement on Monday calling the charges ‘serious and deeply disturbing’.
‘The acts outlined in the charges are a tragic betrayal of the character of a disciple of Jesus Christ,’ a statement said.
‘We do know that this is a devastating reality for the victims and their families, for the Moser family, for this community that we love, and for the people of River City Church.
‘We also know that neither those suffering nor the one who caused the suffering is beyond the reach of God’s grace and the redemptive power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.’
Moser faced court briefly on Tuesday where her bail was set at $30,000. She was ordered not to have contact with the two teens and was banned from using social media.
