Missouri assistant principal is arrested for having sex with boy, 16

A Missouri assistant principal has been arrested for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old boy multiple times at her home. 

Elizabeth ‘Beth’ Giesler, 39, was charged on Friday with felony sexual contact with a student, felony second-degree statutory sodomy and second-degree statutory rape. 

She is accused of sleeping having sex with the boy at her home in St. Genevieve, Missouri, on at least three different occasions between April and May. 

Elizabeth ‘Beth’ Giesler, 39, was charged on Friday with felony sexual contact with a student, felony second-degree statutory sodomy and second-degree statutory rape

The boy is in the custody of the state but told his father about it, prompting a police investigation. 

Giesler was released from jail after posting bond last week. She is awaiting her next court date and has been placed on administrative leave until then. 

Giesler got to know the boy in her role as assistant principal at St. Genevieve Junior High School.

His family say they were hopeful she would be able to help him succeed at school and that they thought she was nurturing him. 

‘She talked to us about my son and what she can do for him, through life, like, give him a better life because he’s a good football player, so she was going to make sure he got on the right path,’ the boy’s father, who wanted to remain anonymous, told KTVI. 

Giesler met the boy through her job as the assistant principal of St Genevieve Junior High School (pictured)

Giesler met the boy through her job as the assistant principal of St Genevieve Junior High School (pictured)

The victim's father did not want to be named. He spoke out after hearing of Giesler's arrest to say he was shocked. The boy is in the care of the state but he has a relationship with his son and claims he told him about the sexual encounters. He thought he was joking, he said 

The victim’s father did not want to be named. He spoke out after hearing of Giesler’s arrest to say he was shocked. The boy is in the care of the state but he has a relationship with his son and claims he told him about the sexual encounters. He thought he was joking, he said 

‘She took advantage of him. She manipulated him because she knew what she was doing,’ he added. 

The boy’s father said he told him about their sexual encounters but he thought he was joking. 

The boy’s grandmother was equally shocked. 

‘I thought she was very nice. She was always very warm. I thought she was doing something for him. Turns out, she was,’ she told Fox 2. 

Giesler is listed as married on property records. She has not commented on her arrest.  



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