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Updated · Fox News · Jul 2

Former Texas Teacher Adriana Rullan Gets 33 Years for Abusing 13-Year-Old Student

Updated

Updated · Fox News · Jul 2

Former Texas Teacher Adriana Rullan Gets 33 Years for Abusing 13-Year-Old Student

Q: Convicted in two hours after pleading not guilty, what was her side of the story?

There is no public indication in the reporting that Adriana Rullan offered a detailed alternative account of what happened at trial. The available coverage says only that she pleaded not guilty to all charges and that it was not immediately clear whether she plans to appeal. What is publicly documented is the prosecution’s case: over two days, jurors heard from six witnesses and reviewed dozens of exhibits, including text messages, photographs and video recordings. Investigators also recovered electronic communications from the victim’s cellphone after his parents reported the relationship to the United Independent School District Police Department in November 2023. That digital evidence appears to have been central to the case. The jury convicted her on all three counts—continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14, indecency with a child by sexual contact, and an improper relationship between an educator and a student—after less than two hours of deliberation. That short deliberation suggests jurors found the evidence straightforward and persuasive, but it does not by itself reveal what the defense argued. So, based on the reporting now available, her “side of the story” has not been publicly laid out in any meaningful detail. To know that, one would need trial transcripts, defense filings, or an appeal setting out her arguments.

3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jul 2

A Webb County jury sentenced former Laredo middle school teacher Adriana Rullan, 30, to 33 years in prison after convicting her of continuous sexual abuse of a child younger than 14.
Jurors also imposed 10 years for indecency with a child and 13 years for an improper educator-student relationship, with the terms running concurrently, plus $20,000 in fines.
Less than 2 hours of deliberation followed a two-day trial in which prosecutors presented six witnesses and dozens of exhibits, including text messages, photographs and video recordings recovered from the victim's phone.
The victim, 13 at the time of the abuse, told jurors the abuse cost him friendships, his sense of self and nearly his life, while his mother said it drove his depression and anxiety.
The case began after the boy's parents reported the relationship to United Independent School District police on Nov. 27, 2023; Rullan was arrested the next month and had pleaded not guilty.