Two Destrehan teachers are now facing felony charges this week for their alleged relationship with a 16-year-old student. 
 
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 Officials with the Kenner Police Department arrested Shelley Dufresne and Rachel Respess Wednesday. They were taken to the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center on allegations of inappropriate sexual contact with the teenage Destrehan High student. 
 
 Dufresne and Respess were charged with carnal knowledge of a juvenile and contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile. Both are teachers at DHS. 
 
 According to the KPD, an investigation began after the St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office was notified by school administrators that the teen was bragging to other students about his relationship with the teachers. It took place Sept. 12 in Kenner, officials said. 
 
 Investigators confirmed Wednesday afternoon that all three reportedly were together at the home until the early-morning hours of Sept 13. The house belonged to Respess and is the only incident authorities are looking into at this time, officials said. 
 
 Deputies with the SCPSO interviewed the student who provided an account of what allegedly happened with Respess and Dufresne. He told them it was consensual. 
 
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 Dufresne and Respess were questioned about the incident during their time at the KPD. Respess stopped short of a "total confession," police said in a news conference Wednesday. 
 
 Investigators are now working to collect further evidence. It is alleged that cellphones and images are being reviewed of the three together. 
 
 "No matter what sex the victim is, everyone should be outraged," Kenner Police Chief Michael Glaser said. "You have educators whose responsibility is the safety of children." 
 
 WATCH: News conference 
 
 During the news conference, Glaser confirmed that Respess was the student's English teacher in 2013. Dufresne is the student's current teacher. 
 
 Both women had bond hearings Wednesday afternoon in Jefferson Parish. Dufresne was arrested on Tuesday in St. Charles and faces charges there and in Kenner. 
 
 According to jail records, Defresne was released from custody Wednesday night. Respess was released early Thursday morning. 
 
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 Second Destrehan teacher faces charges after being accused of having sex with student 
 
 
 
 October 01, 2014 at 12:18 pm | Print October 01, 2014 at 12:18 pm | Mobile Reader 
 
 Shelley Dufresne (left) and Rachel Respess 
 
 Two Destrehan High School teachers have been arrested after allegedly having a threesome with a student who was 16 at the time. 
 
 English teacher Shelley Dufresne, 33, of 805 Country Cottage Blvd. in Montz, was charged with carnal knowledge of a juvenile and contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile. Fellow English teacher Rachel Respess, 23, of Kenner, faces the same charges. 
 
 Dufresne is married with three children and has been teaching at DHS for 10 years. Respess graduated from Destrehan in 2008 and has been teaching at the school for two years. 
 
 The student is 17 years old now, but was 16 at the time the alleged crime took place. The student bragged to classmates about having sex with two teachers, which resulted in a St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office investigation at Destrehan on Friday, Sept. 26. 
 
 According to the Sheriff’s Office, the first crime took place in the early part of September in Montz. 
 
 A second incident allegedly took place in Kenner after the Destrehan versus Helen Cox football game on Friday, Sept. 12. Kenner Police Chief Michael Glaser said both teachers are accused of having sex with the student in Respess' home on West Esplanade Avenue that night. 
 
 He said that Respess was the student's English teacher last year, while Dufresne taught the student English this year. 
 
 St. Charles Parish School Board member Al Suffrin said the situation is troubling. 
 
 “It gives the district a black eye. It is obviously something we don’t like to see happen because it is a distraction. It gets in the way of what our core business is.,” he said. 
 
 Suffrin said the school district has overcome such situations before, but it makes the job of all educators more difficult when such issues arise. 
 
 “Generally speaking we have enough challenges as it is. We didn’t need something like this to happen to add to the challenges we already have. It is a difficult enough task,” he said. “When something like this happens it is more than just a bump in road. We work so hard to make strides and progress and something like this is a setback. 
 
 “We’ve had other challenges we’ve faced and overcome.” 
 
 Dufresne was first arrested for carnal knowledge of a juvenile on Tuesday in St. Charles Parish. She was released after posting bond, but was rebooked with additional charges on Wednesday in Kenner. 
 
 Both teachers have been suspended without pay, according to Stevie Crovetto, public information director for St. Charles Parish Public Schools. 

 Two Destrehan High School teachers were arrested Wednesday on charges of having group sex with a student at one teacher's apartment in Kenner. Rachel Respess, 24, and Shelley Dufresne, 32, are accused of engaging in an illicit tryst with the 16-year-old boy after the Destrehan-Helen Cox High football game Sept. 12. 
 
 Kenner Police Chief Michael Glaser said the menage a trois happened at Respess' apartment at 1354 W. Esplanade Ave. Respess, accompanied by her attorney, surrendered to authorities Wednesday at about 10:30 a.m. Dufresene had already been arrested Tuesday for allegedly having sex with the boy at a home in Montz, where she lives. 
 
 Kenner police booked both women with carnal knowledge of a juvenile, indecent behavior with a juvenile and contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile, Glaser said. If charged and convicted on those complaints, the teachers face 0 to 17 1/2 years in prison. 
 
 Glaser said the two women were friends, and both had been teachers of the student. Respess was his English teacher last year, Dufresne his English instructor until this week, the chief said. 
 
 Authorities said they were tipped to the allegations on Friday, when school system officials told the St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office that a male student was "bragging to other students that he was having a sexual relationship with teachers." Detectives interviewed the student, who said the encounter was consensual and gave the officers an account of the events, Glaser said. Notwithstanding his statement, the legal age of consent in Louisiana is 17. 
 
 Respess gave police a statement. Glaser said she "almost" confessed to having sex with the student but did not go into "intricate details." 
 
 "She gave a similar account of his story," Glaser said. "But she stopped short of a total confession." 
 
 Dufresne gave no statement to Kenner police. Still, Glaser said, investigators have "no doubt" that the women had sexual intercourse with the student -- and are investigating a rumor that the encounter was recorded on video. 
 
 "No matter what sex the victim is, everyone should be outraged," Glaser said. "You have an educator. Their responsibility is the safety and the education of children. ... They should have known better." 
 
 Respess' attorney, Jeffrey Smith, said his client maintains her innocence. "All I'm trying to do right now is getting her booked and bonded out," he said. "That's when everything -- the investigation -- begins." 
 
 The Kenner arrests came a day after St. Charles sheriff's deputies booked Dufresne with carnal knowledge of a juvenile. That incident occurred at a Montz home in September, authorities said. Dufresne's father is state District Judge Emile St. Pierre. 
 
 Stevie Crovetto, a spokeswoman for St. Charles public schools, said the school system "has been fully cooperating with the Sheriff's Office throughout the investigation." Dufresne and Respess were suspended Friday with pay, but that was modified to no-pay upon their arrests, school officials said
– Two Louisiana teachers have been arrested and accused of seducing a student—after the then-16-year-old boy bragged about having a ménage à trois with them. School officials heard about the teen's boasts and alerted authorities, who questioned him; he told detectives what happened and said it was all consensual. However, as the legal age of consent in Louisiana is 17, Rachel Respess, 24, and Shelley Dufresne, 32, were arrested for allegedly having a threesome with the boy at Respess' apartment after a Destrehan High School football game last month, the Times-Picayune reports. They were also, not surprisingly, suspended from their jobs without pay. Respess was the teen's English teacher last year, and Dufresne was his English teacher this year until her arrest; the two teachers are friends, police say. Dufresne was arrested Tuesday on charges of another tryst with the boy, this one at her home, and Respess surrendered yesterday. "[Respess] gave a similar account of his story," says the police chief, who added she did not get into "intricate details" or give a "total confession." She's been teaching at Destrehan for two years, the St. Charles Herald Guide reports, while Dufresne—who is married with three kids—has been there for a decade. Both face charges of carnal knowledge of a juvenile, indecent behavior with a juvenile, and contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile, which could carry a sentence as long as 17 years. The kicker? There's a rumor going around that the threesome was recorded, and WDSU reports that detectives are reviewing "images ... of the three together." (The teacher who was initially sentenced to just one month for raping a student was just re-sentenced.)