Former caseworker accused of abusing teen
A woman who allegedly sexually abused a teen boy she met while his caseworker at a juvenile facility is facing a criminal charge in Bowie County.
Jessica Marie Pratt, 25, came to the attention of the Hooks, Texas, Police Department when a member of the Pittsburg, Texas, Police Department made contact June 28 regarding a woman who was having sex with a teen, according to a probable cause affidavit.
Pittsburg police were contacted by a Camp/ Titus County, Texas, juvenile probation officer who said a teen on her caseload claimed Pratt sexually abused him.
The boy allegedly reported that Pratt was his caseworker when he was incarcerated at Rockdale Academy in Rockdale, Texas.
An employee of Rockdale declined to confirm whether or when Pratt was employed and agreed to have an administrator contact the Gazette next week when the administrator returns to work.
Pratt allegedly picked the boy up from a convenience store in Pittsburg and drove him to a house in Hooks, Texas, where she lives with a parent.
Pratt allegedly assaulted the boy sexually at the Hooks residence on several different dates this year.
The boy allegedly told his probation officer that he quit responding to text messages from Pratt because he knew “it was wrong.” Pratt allegedly confessed to a member of law enforcement that she had sex with the boy three times at the house on Wilder Street in Hooks.
Pratt was arrested on a charge of sexual assault of a child by Hooks police July 13.
Court records show she posted bond on a $100,000 bail July 22. Pratt is scheduled to appear next week before 202nd District Judge John Tidwell for a pre-indictment hearing.
Sexual assault of a child is punishable by two to 20 years in prison.