An 18-year-old Texas woman was arrested when she allegedly showed a sex tape of her and her now ex-boyfriend in the back of his truck to his friends and customers at a bar in a twisted revenge porn case.
Taylor Jewell Richard is accused of airing the lewd footage of her and Michael Bassett to patrons at the District 249 Bar & Grill in Tomball, Texas, on March 3 with intent to harm her former beau, according to an arrest affidavit viewed by The Post.
Bassett, the owner and CEO of a diesel maintenance company, owned up to recording the Valentine’s Day romp after Richard’s urging and with the “confidence” of the video not being shown to anyone outside the couple.
“She had me record it on her phone,” Bassett told KTRK. “I mean, I took those out of confidence, not thinking they would get out. I don’t got an OnlyFans or anything. I don’t sell pictures and stuff of my body.”
Bassett claimed he ended his relationship with Richard shortly after Valentine’s Day and asked her to delete the footage from her phone.
One of Bassett’s friends was at the bar, located 28 miles northwest of Houston, and alerted Bassett of Richard’s act through Snapchat.
The messages turned to joking and name-calling, including Bassett being referred to as “Mickle Pickle.”
Some of his customers took offense to the sultry videos and turned their patronage away from Bassett’s business, infuriating the self-employer.
“I can handle my friends messing with me and whatnot. I can’t handle when I start losing money,” he said.
Richard was arrested Monday night and formally charged Wednesday.
She faces one count of felony, Unlawful Disclosure of Intimate Visual Material, a crime that faces up to two years in prison if found guilty.
“(Richard) knew that said visual material was created under circumstances in which (Bassett) had a reasonable expectation that said visual material would remain private, and the disclosure of said visual material caused harm to the (Bassett,) namely by public ridicule and business customer relation damage,” the charging document read.
Richard was released on her recognizance under the condition of not making contact with Bassett.
But before being released from jail, she called him begging for the charges to be dropped.
“She was just like, ‘Are you going to drop the charges?’ And this, that, and the other. I’m like, ‘No, you have a lesson to learn,’” he told the outlet.
Bassett also warned other “young men” to not end up in a similar situation by not recording themselves.
“Tomorrow’s promised to nobody. Your relationship is not promised to you tomorrow and these women are out here can be evil,” he added.
The Texas Tribune redesigned its Public Schools Explorer to add more timely data and features to help families and teachers navigate the state’s sprawling public school system.
In all, Texas has 1,202 school districts and 9,113 public schools, including hundreds of charter schools and alternative campuses. About 5.5 million students attend public schools in Texas, and our explorer includes information on all of them.
It’s an overwhelming amount of data, which is why our journalists focused on organizing the site in a more intuitive way. We included more context to explain what the numbers mean and why they matter. In addition, each school’s performance is compared against statewide and regional trends, which will help families better understand how their child’s school is performing.
We feel this is the perfect time to launch a new site. Parents and families need to be able to see the options available for their children’s education, especially as school choice expands in Texas. We’re showing readers their local campus and nearby campuses, including traditional school districts and charter schools. We show how their school demographics, funding and other characteristics have changed over time to help illustrate broader trends.
We also hope this tool will be useful to teachers, school staff, policymakers and anyone curious about Texas education — including those who need accurate and reliable data to understand how policy impacts students.
Each school district and campus has its own page on the site. Within those pages, data is now organized into a handful categories, including student demographics, classroom experience, opportunities and outcomes, and more. Each category has its own URL, making it easier to share information that matters the most.
We’ve added new data from the Texas Education Agency, including funding information for school districts to help readers better understand where and how schools get money. We also redesigned the districts page to make it easier to find districts using different filters.
In addition to these new features, our site will be more up to date than ever before. Previously, the explorer was updated once a year. Now we can integrate new data as soon as the state releases it, with finance numbers expected in the spring and state accountability ratings in August.
This new explorer builds on the Data Visuals team’s ongoing work covering public education issues affecting students and teachers across the state. In a recent story, we showed how low-income students are being left behind in higher education outcomes and included a lookup tool to help readers explore the data in their own communities.
If you have feedback, email us at schools-feedback@texastribune.org. Also, stay tuned for more updates — we plan to release new features soon. After exploring the new tool, be sure to check out the Tribune’s extensive public education coverage for more on how these issues are playing out across the state.
This project is supported in part by Greater Texas Foundation and Houston Endowment.
Tuesday was the deadline for Texas families to apply for the state’s first school vouchers. In this week’s episode of the TribCast, hosts Matthew and Eleanor speak with Jaden Edison, the Tribune’s education reporter, about who signed up, the future of the program and why Muslim schools were initially shut out from participating.
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