{"id":40959,"date":"2025-05-02T10:27:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T14:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/?p=40959"},"modified":"2025-05-02T10:27:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T14:27:51","slug":"florida-teacher-accused-of-sending-5th-grade-girl-creepy-letter-saying-i-truly-love-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/florida-teacher-accused-of-sending-5th-grade-girl-creepy-letter-saying-i-truly-love-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida teacher accused of sending 5th grade girl creepy letter saying: \u2018I truly love you"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nA Florida elementary school teacher is under investigation after he was allegedly caught telling a 5th-grade student, \u201cI truly love you\u201d in a creepy handwritten letter, according to police and reports.<\/p>\n

Jarrett Williams, a 5th-grade teacher at BD Gullett Elementary School in Bradenton, resigned from his position on April 23, just weeks after the student\u2019s mother discovered the sickening two-page love letter the educator wrote to her 11-year-old daughter, according to the Manatee County School District.<\/p>\n

The lengthy letter, provided to WFLA, showed that Williams repeatedly professed his affection to the minor, with him initially apologizing for putting \u201cslime all over\u201d the student and making her \u201cupset\u201d after assuming they \u201ccould have some fun together.\u201d
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The inappropriate letter, which was signed \u201cYour favorite teacher \u2018only because I have to be\u2019,\u201d also encouraged the young girl to keep their correspondence a secret.<\/p>\n

Ann Mitchell, the student\u2019s alarmed mother, accused the teacher of \u201cserious and egregious misconduct\u201d against her daughter and other students at Tuesday\u2019s school board meeting, where the instructor\u2019s resignation was approved.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis male 5th-grade teacher led my 11-year-old daughter into his classroom and spent 45 minutes alone with her while the rest of the students went to the library for their specials on Valentine\u2019s Day,\u201d she told the board, ABC 7 reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere is the accountability? She has nightmares and wakes up having cried in her sleep. This teacher stole a piece of her innocence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mitchell reported the concerning note to authorities and school officials on March 9. Williams was then reassigned to a non-instruction facility away from children the next day as the district opened an internal probe, a spokesperson for the school district told The Post Thursday.<\/p>\n

The allegations were also reported to the Florida Department of Education.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis resignation was placed on the agenda for the very next school board meeting, Tuesday, April 29th, for personnel action,\u201d the district said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter public comment and board discussion, the school board approved the resignation so that Mr. Williams\u2019 separation from the district was complete. The Manatee County Sheriff\u2019s Office investigation remains open, and the district will continue to fully cooperate with that investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deputies told The Post a harassment charge, as it relates to bullying, is forthcoming against Williams. <\/p>\n

The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Florida elementary school teacher is under investigation after he was allegedly caught telling a 5th-grade student, \u201cI truly love you\u201d in a creepy handwritten letter, according to police and reports. Jarrett Williams, a 5th-grade teacher at BD Gullett Elementary School in Bradenton, resigned from his position on April 23, just weeks after the student\u2019s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[251,89,710],"class_list":["post-40959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wls-news","tag-251","tag-news","tag-teacher"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Gp5g9HZW4AA3ecv.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40962,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40959\/revisions\/40962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}