A former Miss Kentucky beauty queen has admitted to sending nude photos of herself to a 15-year-old — and now faces up to two years in prison for her crime. “Since I am the adult, and he was just a teenager, it is my fault, and I accept full blame for the situation,” Ramsey Carpenter-Bearse, 29, said in court on Tuesday while pleading guilty to a charge of possessing material depicting minors in sexually explicit conduct, WOWK-TV reports. “So that’s how I’m guilty of this crime. I messed up big-time.”
Carpenter-Bearse was crowned Miss Kentucky in 2014. After her reign, she began working as a teacher in West Virginia. According to a 2018 press release issued by the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office, Carpenter-Bearse was charged last year with distributing obscene materials to a minor.
“Mrs. Bearse sent obscene photographs of herself to a 15-year-old who was a former student of hers at Andrew Jackson Middle School,” the release reads. “She is currently suspended from her teaching position.” According to a criminal complaint first obtained by the Associated Press, the student’s parents informed authorities that they had found lewd pictures on the boy’s phone. The pictures, which were allegedly sent via Snapchat, had been saved to the phone’s camera roll. When the teen asked for more pictures, she “panicked” and decided to send additional photos. Eventually, he responded by sending a picture of his genitals to her.
Carpenter-Bearse will also have to register as a convicted sex offender. Flip the page for a report on the former Miss Kentucky in her swimsuit.