Overview
- Jamelah Daboubi, 28, pleaded guilty in Franklin County Common Pleas Court to gross sexual imposition and unlawful sexual conduct with a minor.
- Prosecutors say the 10th grader reported a relationship involving kissing and touching, and police found hundreds of calls and thousands of texts that included declarations of love.
- Columbus police arrested Daboubi in April 2025 after the teen’s aunt reported finding the pair together in a car outside her home on Salado Creek Drive.
- Daboubi was terminated from Horizon Science Academy following her arrest, and initial sexual-battery counts were later amended by authorities.
- The court has recommended five years of community control, counseling, surrender of her teaching license, community service, and sex‑offender registration, with a maximum possible sentence of 18 months, and a scheduled sentencing hearing was continued to a later date.