A Florida middle school vice principal was arrested after she made a 13-year-old student rub her feet, insisting she was giving the boy — whom she nicknamed “Sexy Chocolate” — practice for his future girlfriend, according to police.
Dr. Keiva Lark, 53, was disciplining the student in her office at Lake Marion Creek Middle School in Brevard County for throwing a paper ball across the classroom during a test when she kicked off her shoes, put her legs across his lap and told him to “rub her feet, since he didn’t have anything better to do with his hands,” two witnesses and the victim told police.
Lark was then heard scolding the boy for not rubbing her feet to her liking and showed him how she wanted to be massaged by touching the child’s arm and shoulder, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.
Witnesses said she went as far as to tell the teen to “rub her feet like he loved her,” and told the boy she was showing him how to give her a massage “so he would know what foreplay is when he gets a girlfriend,” police said.
Lark admitted to a co-worker days later that she had “crossed the line,” the co-worker told police.
The school principal on April 4 notified police, who launched an investigation.
The victim told police that Lark had referred to him as “Sexy Chocolate” while passing him in the hallway.
“Dr. Lark initially told detectives that this was only a joke, and that she was just trying to humble the victim. It’s completely inappropriate for a 53-year old woman to act and talk like this to a middle school boy. It’s even worse given that this was an assistant principal and her student,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said in a statement.
During an interview with police, Lark conceded that she acted inappropriately as an assistant principal but denied saying anything inappropriate to the boy.
She was charged with lewd conduct and a lewd offense against a student by an authority figure and has been placed on administrative leave.
