Teacher given 4 years for sex crime

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A former Paradise High School ag teacher has been sentenced to prison for having sexual contact with a student.

Taylor Ann Nimmo, 24, of Gainesville pleaded guilty to second degree felony charges – improper relationship between educator and student and indecency with a child sexual contact – and was sentenced to four years in prison on both charges. The sentences will run concurrently.

The plea was entered Thursday afternoon in 271st District Court in Decatur.

Following the sentence, Nimmo was taken into custody by the Wise County Sheriff’s Office and booked into the Wise County Jail where she will await transfer to prison.

Nimmo faced a punishment range of 2 to 20 years in prison on both charges, if she had been found guilty at trial.

Court records show Nimmo will be required to register as a sex offender with local law enforcement wherever she lives or works following her release from prison. The requirement will be for life.

Nimmo was arrested Dec. 12, 2019, when she turned herself in at the Erath County Jail in Stephenville, according to court records.

The offense took place Nov. 13, 2019, at the school.

According to the arrest affidavit in the case, the 16-year-old victim said Nimmo would flirt with him, and they would kiss each other during and after school hours. He said he was contacted by Nimmo after school, asking if he wanted to go to the ag classroom.

“Once at the classroom, he and the defendant started kissing, at which time, he grabbed the defendant’s breast and butt over clothing,” the affidavit states.

The same day, the affidavit states, another teacher saw the two together apparently engaged in sexual contact behind a desk in the ag classroom after school.

The investigator concluded that Nimmo “had more than a teacher student relationship and she did not stop the victim from touching (her) breast or report the actions of the victim to the principal of the high school,” the affidavit states.

Paradise ISD Superintendent Paul Uttley told the Messenger last year that the district contacted law enforcement immediately upon hearing the allegation of the improper relationship and performed their own internal investigation separate from the law enforcement investigation.

Nimmo’s employment with the district ended Nov. 18, 2019, Uttley said. She was in her first year teaching at Paradise.