A DISGRACED former teacher who made headlines for a gross affair with her teen student has landed a flashy new career and re-wed her husband.
Sarah Fowlkes, 35, provoked fury when a brazen mugshot showed her grinning like a Cheshire Cat after she was charged for the illicit relationship in 2017.
Sarah Fowlkes, 35, has relaunched her career as a marketing professionalCredit: LinkedIn
The disgraced former teacher had a relationship with a 17-year-old boy nearly a decade agoCredit: Facebook
Fowlkes’ cheerful mugshot was blasted as deeply inappropriate when the story brokeCredit: Caldwell County Sheriff's Office
Newly-revealed messages lift the lid on the affair with the then 17-year-old, in which the pair and even adopted the pet names “Lil Mama” and “Big Daddy”.
Nearly a decade on, Fowlkes is making waves in the marketing space, and even won a small business award by the Society of American Military Engineers in 2023.
At the time of her arrest, the biology teacher insisted she was innocent, only to freely admit the affair with the teen later.
She spent just 10 days behind bars in 2019, completed her four years of probation in 2023, and remarried her husband of 13 years, Hayden Fowlkes.
According to the Daily Mail, at the same time as the affair with the teen, Fowlkes enjoyed another consensual affair with a 53-year old colleague
She currently works for business consultancy firm in San Antonio, relaunching her career.
A post shows her beaming on stage as she collected her 2023 award, with the profile making no mention of her past as a teacher.
reports have revealed the extent of her twisted tryst with the boy.
On top of the embarrassing nicknames, Fowlkes was brazen that she showed off explicit pictures of the boy to a teacher friend.
She claimed that the images were of a similar aged college fling, police were told.
Faculty members raised the alarm about Fowlkes’ closeness to the 17-year-old in 2017.
Responding officers asked the then-27-year-old if she knew why they had swooped on the school, with Fowlkes responding: “Unfortunately.”
She claimed that she had been the victim of false accusations, because she was “young and pretty”.
Fowlkes, who specialised in biology, lost her job after admitting the affair
She struck up the relationship at Lockhart High School, Texas
A fellow teacher, Brittany Underwood, told police that her friend was “very open about being unfaithful to her husband,” according to the report.
She said that Fowlkes paraded explicit snapchat messages from an account named “Big Daddy” on a boozy night out.
Underwood claimed she was unaware of the subject’s age at the time.
“Sarah told us that [Big Daddy] was an old friend,” Underwood said in her statement.
“I later grabbed her phone from her and saw a message from Big Daddy.
“It said he loved her.”
Fowlkes it was said showed friends a picture of a grown man on her , claiming he was the man in question.
One of the people at the drinks altar told cops that the man’s skin tone appeared different to the one of the private parts.
He messaged her that night, saying: “Whiskey makes you frisky,” a friend recalled.
The boy then went into graphic detail about sexual acts he was going to perform on Fowlkes.
She replied that she would “show [him] the ropes”.
She told friends that she was going to spend Spring Break having “lots of sex” with this person.
Fowlkes was described as being “giddy” when showing the messages around.
Police documents show that the teen developed a close bond with the former teacher after he reached out in person “to help me get past my troubles” after the death of a relative.
Fowlkes even won an award for her work in her new career in 2023Credit: Facebook
She remarried husband Hayden Fowlkes after cheating on him several timesCredit: Facebook
Soon after, the boy detailed how they would “kiss and hold each other very passionately” while groping each other “nearly every day before and after school.”
He also showed cops nudes she had sent him during their conversations.
One staffer inside the school also told police that they had seen Fowlkes leave her classroom in surveillance footage and enter a bathroom, with the boy leaving her classroom shortly after.
Other teachers saw the pair leaving a baseball game in the same car and another saw her kissing the boy’s hand.
Discussions were also had over whether her outfits were appropriate for a teacher.
Walter Lee Nickells, a 53-year-old colleague of Fowlkes’, also admitted to having an affair while they were at the school.
The pair began a physical relationship over the 2016 Christmas break when they met at his lake house in Cost, , for sex.
They were soon romping in the back of his truck after bar dates in San Marcos.
After Fowlkes was rumbled for her affair with a teenage student, she was snapped smiling in a now-notorious mugshot.
She was ordered to carry out 120 hours of community service, stay away from and alcohol and abandon the teaching profession for good.
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