Disgraced Florida teacher accused of using Google Docs to groom underage student before alleged sex crimes

A Palm Beach County, Florida, science teacher is behind bars after investigators say he used a shared Google Doc to secretly communicate with a student before engaging in sexual acts with her at school and inside his apartment, according to an arrest affidavit. Elias Gordon Farley, 26, a former teacher at Donna Klein Jewish Academy in Boca Raton, was arrested after the student reported the alleged abuse on Nov.18. The teen told detectives the interactions began as casual conversations during the previous school year, but over the summer, Farley allegedly created a shared Google Doc in which the two wrote messages back and forth.Investigators said the file later contained explicit entries describing sexual activity and planning when they would meet privately.According to the affidavit, the student said the relationship became physical in mid-September inside Farley’s office, where he touched her beneath her clothing.She told detectives the encounters continued for weeks in both his office and a classroom. By late September and into October, she said the pair were engaging in sexual acts, including oral sex and, at one point, intercourse inside a classroom on campus.The student also described visiting Farley’s apartment twice in early November after recognizing details he had mentioned about its location and layout.She told deputies that several sexual encounters occurred during those visits.Detectives later executed a search warrant and said they found bedding, condom wrappers and furniture matching her description.Farley’s roommate confirmed he had not been home on the dates the teen said she visited.School surveillance video reviewed by deputies also appeared to support her account, showing Farley and the student entering his office together on Nov.

7 and later entering a classroom for about an hour.The situation came to light after the student confided in an art teacher on Nov.14 and showed her bruises and bite marks she said came from Farley.Admin...