Oh my god. Oh my god. I'm going to go get my sticker right now. >> Can you do me a favor? I see you around the >> That's uh years old. >> Okay. >> They ask me out at school or >> Can I get the thing? Oh, yeah. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you, sir. >> On February 3rd, 2025, deputies caught wind of a wild situation involving a juvenile driving a car. The real shocker was the passenger, a school employee who seemed way too comfortable with the arrangement. 2 days later, officers tracked her down for a traffic stop that was actually a deep dive into some very disturbing [music] allegations. What started as a talk about expired tags quickly shifted into a [music] heavy investigation regarding her behavior with students. >> Yeah. >> Hi. >> Can you do me a favor? >> Yep. Can you pull up a little bit more so we're not blocking up here? I appreciate it. It was >> Hi. Is there anyone else in the car with you or you? >> No, it's just me. >> Okay. I'm Detective McCracken with the Lake County Sheriff's Office. Okay. >> Yeah. >> The reason we stopped you, your tags are expired. No front license plate, and you didn't signal when you were trying to make a left turn into the bank. Okay. >> Okay. So, I need a plate in front, too. >> You do need a plate in the state of Illinois. >> Oh my god. Oh my god. I'm going to go get my speaker right now. >> Can you do me a favor? I see you're on the phone. Do you mind uh hanging up for me? Yeah. >> I thought it was forbidden speakers, but >> No, no, no. I don't I I don't care about you being on the phone or nothing. >> Okay. Can you do me a favor, though? Can you bring your phone with you and then step out of the car for me? >> Yeah. >> Oh, no. Your your check engine lights on. >> I know. I don't I don't know if it's going to pass the uh emission test. >> Ah, yeah. Okay. Yeah. You want you want to step out? >> I got to bring it to my mechanic first. I see. We'll come to the back right here. I'll talk with you. Okay. >> Okay. >> Um, so the reason why I'm pulling out your car and I want to talk to you, okay? We were actually coming right by your house to come talk to you. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> About the situation that's that's going on over at uh at school. Did the school kind of call you and tell you about that? >> No, they just sent me an email. >> They sent you an email? >> Yeah. >> What' they tell you? um that they wanted to have a meeting with me like about like my um my actions and and I and I said like I don't know what I did bad. I didn't do anything bad but I I just resigned to them. I said I'm just going to quit because I didn't I don't remember doing anything bad. >> Okay. >> So I just I just left. >> So >> and I just give her a new job. >> I hear you. So here's what I will explain to you. >> Okay. No matter what reason the woman was initially pulled over for, the real issue remained the situation involving the school student. When the detective dropped the bomb about allegations of a relationship with students, [music] she immediately pulled the I don't know what I did card. If you did nothing wrong, why the hell did you give up your job and resign so fast? [music] Most people fight for their paycheck unless they know their digital trail is about to catch up to them. There's some students at that school that are making allegations that you have a relationship with. >> One student for sure, two possibly. >> What >> those students being? >> No way. >> Ism. >> They have text messages from you and they have a Snapchat account from you saying it's you. Okay. Do you have any involvement seeing those or being out there and about with them? >> Nope. They wanted to date me and I kept telling men that I'm not I'm not going to date somebody that's uh years old. >> Okay. >> They kept asking me out >> at school or >> at school. They they kept asking me out since I started working there. >> Okay. >> And I always said no. I kept rejecting them and they got pissed off at me because because I kept telling them no. And they got mad at me for not letting them their phone inside and vaping too. Smoking >> vaping too. >> Yeah. smoking weed and and more stuff, you know, and they and and >> I mean, like I said, >> following the rules, they started hating me for trying to follow the rules. >> Like I said, I mean, it could it could be boys making up rumors, too. Um, one thing one thing that'll help us kind of put an end to all this to say for sure like, >> oh, this is definitely not going on. >> Um, your cell phone, >> what we can do is called the forensic analysis of it. What that does is we can see if you were texting those numbers or Snapchatting or if they were trying to snap or text you. >> It'll show all of that. >> Is that something you'd want to do? Allow us to do. Give us consent to to dump your phone to download your phone. >> Like download it where? >> Over at our office in Waggan. So, I would take it today. I would go have someone download it today. It's going to take a little bit of time. So, I would say I probably get it back to you tomorrow. >> She claimed the kids were just pissed off because she rejected [music] them and wouldn't let them vape. It was a classic deflect and project move. The predator lady knew she was caught the second they mentioned text messages [music] and Snapchat. Why was she texting and Snapchatting with teenagers in the first place? It was obvious she was lying through her teeth. >> Well, the uh this is another phone though. This is this is another phone that I'm I started using because my other one that I had broke. >> It broke? >> Yes. >> Okay. What was the phone number for that one? >> For the one that broke? >> Yeah. What's up? >> Okay. It was with the school, right? >> Before. Yeah. >> When did that break down you? >> Like uh about I would say about a month or something. Maybe less than a month. >> What's that phone number? >> So your new phone? >> This one? >> Yeah. >> Okay. This one is >> All right. Give me one second. Yeah. Okay. Wow. That's the phone that the school has. Which one? >> The one she's got right now. >> So, we'll take that from her unless she wants to give consent. Otherwise, >> the officers decided they weren't waiting for her broken phone story to make sense. They planned to seize her current device and even decided to tow her car as part of the evidence. [music] She stayed busy trying to act like everything was normal while her life was crumbling. Thankfully, her disgusting actions were [music] finally coming to light. The detectives knew they had enough to move forward regardless of her weak attempts at playing innocent. >> They're still going to take it. And then uh what do you think about the car tow it still in relation to the investigation? >> I just I don't know what it's going to give us. >> I'll call Lana real quick. All right. >> Get it? >> No, it's got to be him cuz it's his car. If you get hurt on it, he'll get in a lot of trouble. The white the white phone charger >> is in the back. >> Yeah. Can you take the back? Because it's like it's mine in the back. >> Yeah. >> Oh, that one. >> Can I get the thing? Oh, yeah. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you, sir. You work fast. Tell me had to >> uh she had some guy coming here named Ernesto, her boyfriend, but we're actually going to cart her back to C now. So, you should be able to clear. >> And essentially, they hear the case and then they decide if there's going to be something. >> Okay. All the way down. Maybe they found another. >> In the end, Sandra Partardo learned that digital [music] footprints don't just disappear because you claim a phone broke. The digital evidence and witness statements painted a much uglier picture of what was happening behind school doors. She went from worrying about emission tests to facing a grand jury. It was a swift fall from grace for someone who was supposed [music] to protect kids, not target them. According to the sheriff's office, the woman, Sandra Partardo, engaged in unlawful conduct with a student, [music] including incidents on school grounds. She was charged with three counts of aggravated battery, solicitation [music] to meet a child, and child endangerment. The school district made the right call by involving the Lake County Sheriff's Office before things [music] got even worse. Her days of rejecting students while secretly texting them are over, and her next classroom will likely be a prison workshop. [music] It's a win for student safety and a massive loss for anyone who thinks they can hide behind a school ID badge. What do you think about her broken phone excuse? 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