A teacher in St. Louis County is charged with soliciting a child through electronic communication to engage in sexual conduct as well as engaging in electronic communication describing sexual conduct with a child, both felonies, after allegedly kissing a student and sending multiple explicit text messages.

The student, who was 15 at the time of the offense, told law enforcement officers that she started talking to Ellie Sue Krummi, 24, when Krummi had started a job at the school in November 2022. According to the allegations in the criminal complaint, Krummi was a paraprofessional in one of the victim’s classes and they became friends.