House arrest granted to teacher accused of raping 12-year-old girl

BALTIMORE – A judge has sentenced the Baltimore City Public School teacher accused of sexually assaulting a child to home confinement.

Lewis Laury Jr., 24, taught American history at Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School. This summer, he was arrested and charged with second-degree rape and third-degree sex offense.

This stems from his alleged relationship with a 12-year-old girl who was reported missing on June 21.

The girl allegedly left a note for her mother saying she was going to Pennsylvania to meet a friend.

Police discovered that the girl was using someone else’s phone to keep in touch with a man she had been talking to. That phone belonged to Laury.

This led investigators to Laury’s apartment, which happens to be in the same complex where the girl lives.

During an interview with detectives, she told Laury that she was 22 and that they had had consensual unprotected sex numerous times.