A 24-year-old substitute teacher who worked at an East Baton Rouge Parish school told the 16-year-old student-athlete she is accused of exchanging nude photos with that he had swept her off her feet, according to police records.

In text communications, Chloe Ephron also told the teen that he was her "safe space," according to an affidavit for her arrest.

Ephron was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish jail last month on a count of indecent behavior with a juvenile, a boy whom she admitted to having first met when he was a ninth grader.

Ephron began to interact with the boy again in September 2025, when she saw him at the school while also working as a volunteer athletic trainer. She offered the minor a ride home from school after hearing him ask in the office about bus routes,

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