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Las Vegas police say teacher kept journal of her sexual relationship with ex-student

Molasky Junior High School math teacher Nicole Wilfinger kept a journal on her cellphone of her relationship history with a former student, according to her arrest report.

The journal had entries listing first-time occurrences, according to the report. For instance, it lists May 22 as “first time talking and friendship changes forever” and July 11 as “first time we had sex.”

Wilfinger was a family friend to the former student, who told police she was his soccer coach for two years, the report said. She had been to his family’s home and attended some outings with his family.

According to the report, she babysat the family’s 7-year-old daughter, and the family sometimes babysat her 7-year-old daughter.

The report indicates that more than 1,970 phone calls were exchanged between Wilfinger and the student. Police said they recovered 156 text messages and 325 images that had been deleted from Wilfinger’s phone.

According to the arrest report, the sexual relationship started when the former student was 14. Wilfinger and the teenager both told police they had sex three times.

Wilfinger, 37, was arrested April 28. She faces three counts of statutory sexual seduction by a person older than 21, one count of engaging in sexual conduct with a student between the ages of 14 and 15, one count of engaging in sexual conduct with a student between the ages of 16 and 17, and three counts of lewdness with a child older than 14.

Contact Raven Jackson at rjackson@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0381. Follow @ravenmjackson on Twitter.

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