Tapes Shine Light on Alleged Teacher-Student Affair

June 15, 2007 — -- An Arizona female teacher charged with having a consensual sexual relationship with a 16-year-old student was caught on tape telling the teen to deny the affair to his parents and asking her husband if he wanted to have children with her when the whole "mess" blows over.

Jennifer Mally, a 26-year-old high school English teacher and cheerleading coach at Paradise Valley High School in Phoenix, was indicted on 17 counts of sexual misconduct with a minor stemming from what police described in court documents as a long-term sexual relationship.

In the video released by the Phoenix Police Department, Mally is shown in the police department with an investigator who tells her she is going to jail. He leaves the office and Mally calls her husband, Andy, to tell him about her arrest.

While Mally is seemingly oblivious to the videotaping, she tells her husband repeatedly that she won't share details of the sexual relationship out of fear that the telephone conversation is being recorded.

"I'm not going to talk about it over the phone," she said. "I'm not an idiot. I watch ' CSI.'"

Police also released an audio tape in which the accuser, working in cooperation with police, spoke to Mally about their alleged relationship.

In the recorded conversation, Mally asks the teen if he had told anyone else about the affair and tells him that she "could go to f---ing jail." She also instructs him to deny that anything ever took place.

"All that's going to happen is they are going to talk to your parents," she told him. "If you make your parents think it's ridiculous, then it will go away."

Mel McDonald, Mally's defense attorney, said that phone conversations taped by police like the one featuring Mally and his client are commonly used as evidence in Arizona.

The video released by the Phoenix Police Department of Mally's police interview and her telephone conversation with her husband, McDonald said, is a much different story.

"I'm looking at it as possible violation of her rights," McDonald said in an interview with ABC News. "There my be some FCC issues here. I don't think this has a legitimate police purpose."