A married Catholic school teacher has made the outrageous claim that her husband’s ‘neglect’ prompted her to have sex with a 17-year-old pupil.
Emily Nutley, 43, has pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual battery over a physical relationship with a student at the Ohio school in November and December 2023, according to Daily News.
The mother-of-three and former teacher at Cincinnati’s St. Xavier High School was indicted in October 2024 after the victim came forward about the abuse.
A few weeks after the indictment, Nutley’s husband Jonathan Nutley filed for divorce, triggering his wife to accuse him of ‘gross neglect of duty and extreme cruelty’.
She claimed in court this week that this ‘neglect’ made her abuse the child, according to the Daily News.
Hamilton County Prosecutor Melissa Powers previously told DailyMail.com Nutley met the victim when he was sent to a program she ran for academically struggling pupils.
They began texting after school hours last fall, and she allegedly sent him nude selfies and ‘sexually explicit messages’.
Powers alleged their relationship escalated to them having sex several times in mid-November, at least once in her office at the all-boys school after hours.
Married Catholic school teacher Emily Nutley, 43, has made the outrageous claim that her husband’s ‘neglect’ prompted her to have sex with a 17-year-old boy
Mother-of-three Nutley has pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual battery over a physical relationship with a student at the Ohio school in the winter of 2023, according to Daily News
Nutley (left) has pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual battery against the 17-year-old
Nutley allegedly kept texting the student after he tried to break off the illicit affair.
St Xavier charges $18,130 a year in tuition, plus $300 in administrative fees, though financial aid is available.
The school discovered the alleged relationship and conducted an internal investigation, then notified Springfield Township police.
Nutley was fired as soon as the criminal investigation began, which led to her being indicted by a Hamilton County grand jury and arrested on Monday.
She joined the Jesuit school ahead of the 2021-22 year and was listed as the ‘multi-tiered systems support coordinator’ in the student handbook.
The disgraced educator has two daughters and a son, the eldest of whom is a junior at a different high school and only slightly younger than the victim.
She previously taught at Madeira Elementary School, also in Cincinnati, and posted photos of her work and students there on social media.
Disgraced teacher Emily Nutley, 43
Nutley has two daughters and a son, the eldest of whom is a junior at a different high school and only slightly younger than the victim
Nutley joined the Jesuit school ahead of the 2021-22 year and was listed as the ‘multi-tiered systems support coordinator’
‘”The kids that need the most love will ask for it in the most unloving ways”. Be THAT person for THAT student,’ one post read.
Another post read: ‘HELLO! 3rd graders! See someone alone, reach out and help, say hello.’
Nutley’s mother Cheryl Rose praised her daughter in a birthday post just a few months before the alleged relationship with the student began.
‘Emily, my sweet lovely fun loving girl. I love you so much honey. So proud of all the things you are,’ she began.
‘A good daughter, a great wife and loving mother and a wonderful advocate to all of your students.’
Nutley previously taught at Madeira Elementary School, also in Cincinnati, and posted photos of her work and students there on social media
Nutley worked with young children at her previous school, but switched to teens at St Xavier
Prosecutor Powers previously condemned Nutley’s behavior as ‘absolutely unacceptable and reprehensible conduct from an adult towards a minor child’.
‘This child was in need of help and guidance but instead found an adult looking to act out her perverted sexual desires,’ the prosecutor continued.
‘This child was the victim of an adult predator who should never again have a role that puts her in contact with children.
‘She used this child for her own sexual gratification while taking advantage of the position she held.’
St Xavier said it ‘believed this case to be an isolated incident’ but urged any other students to contact police or Principal Dan Lynch if they were victims of a crime.
