A twisted Colorado teacher who started a sick relationship with special needs student sent “thousands” of messages to him, ordered the child to bring a gun to class to shoot her colleague and introduced him to fentanyl, prosecutors said.
Imagine Kay Ewer, a paraprofessional, was busted after officials noticed her obvious “favoritism” toward the 16-year-old boy,
according to the 1st Judicial District Attorney’s Office in Lakewood, CO.
Ewer, 28, showed an unhealthy interest in her student that was noticed almost “immediately” after she started working at Brady Exploration School in August 2023, the DA Office’s investigation revealed.
In November 2023, after the boy hinted at an improper relationship with Ewer in a classroom assignment that another teacher saw, authorities at the school contacted the Lakewood Police Department.
They soon uncovered evidence of a disturbing sexual relationship between the pair, including explicit text messages and signs that drugs, guns and alcohol had been introduced, per prosecutors.
“Thousands upon thousands upon thousands” of messages were sent by Ewer to her student and vice versa, with references to many sexual encounters, according to prosecutors.
Ewer introduced the teenager to illegal and deadly drugs including fentanyl, First Judicial District Attorney’s Office Special Victims Prosecutor Brynn Chase told her sentencing hearing.
She also attempted to get the boy to bring a gun to their sexual encounters as well as shoot a fellow faculty member in their school, the sentencing hearing heard.
Ewer told the boy “to bring the gun to school and shoot another faculty member in the leg,” Chase said at the hearing.
Speaking at the hearing on January 31, the boy’s mother spoke of Ewer’s “painful” betrayal of herself and her vulnerable son, the
DA said.
She said Ewer had “preyed on” her son and led him to “believe she genuinely cared for him, all while exploiting him for money and manipulating him into thinking he was ‘the one,'” she said.
“What makes this even more painful is that I trusted the defendant,” she added in court.
Ewer was sentenced to four years in jail on January 31, after pleading guilty last November to sexual assault on a child and contributed to the delinquency of a minor, both felonies, a month before her trial was due to start.
In exchange for her guilty plea, prosecutors dismissed three other felony counts and one misdemeanor.
She also faces at least 10 years of sexual offender probation, which could be a life sentence depending on her success with a sex offender treatment program.
Ewer apologized to her victim’s family in court as she stood before the judge, according to the DA’s office.
“I’m really sorry; this will never happen again,” she said, as per the office.
Paraprofessionals are paid to provide classroom management and additional instruction to a licensed teacher.
Currently, there are no required qualifications for either paraprofessionals or teaching assistants on the law books in Colorado, according to the website of the state’s
Department of Education.
However, it does recommend an associate’s degree and successful competency assessments for any paraprofessionals on its website.
Brady Exploration is an alternative school founded in 2005.
Before her brief spell there, Ewer had worked at several Jefferson County public schools in various roles, including teaching assistant, paraprofessional, and school nurse, since 2015.
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