Newly revealed video shows an Indiana high school secretary crying during a police interrogation as she admits having sex with a teenage student her husband caught her in bed with on Valentine’s Day.
The footage of Alicia Hughes’ interrogation was shared Saturday — just days after her husband filed for divorce and emergency custody of their three kids, according to Law&Crime.
It shows the 31-year-old mom breaking into tears discussing the 18-year-old student she was caught with, saying that “the physical thing… has been going on since the end of January.”
“This is the third time that I’ve been with him,” she calmly admits, stressing it was “not before he was 18.”
She initially denies having sex with any other students — hours after a 17-year-old boy came forward to say he had also had sex with Hughes at least five times, starting in a car outside a Dollar General, according to court documents obtained by the outlet.
“Are you sure about that?” the interviewing officer asks.
The school secretary then admits meeting that child at the Dollar General as well as sending pictures, while denying an “affair.”
“I never slept with him,” she insists of the younger accuser — before asking for her lawyer.
The footage ends with her wriggling uncomfortably after being handcuffed on five counts of child seduction. She could face up to 6 years in prison and a $10,000 fine on each of those five charges.
The allegations first emerged when Hughes called police herself, accusing her husband of attacking her when he found her in bed with the 18-year-old student on Valentine’s Day. It is not clear if he faces charges.
In the video, Hughes tells the interrogating officer that while her actions weren’t “justified,” she was “physically and mentally” abused by her husband.
“And that’s where I’m at. And now I’m here,” she says.
Hughes was booked at the Randolph County Jail on a $25,000 bond and suspended from her job at Randolph Eastern School Corporation. She “has been removed from all duties with students pending the outcome of the legal process,” Superintendent Neal Adams previously told The Post.
Despite her initial hearing scheduled for Feb. 20 being cancelled, the court found probable cause for her charges and set her next hearing for April 16 to address pre-trial motions.
A pre-trial conference is scheduled for May 7, and a jury trial is set for June 15.
