Gregory Michael Stanley

Gregory Michael "Greg" Stanley (born April 8, 1973 in Tupelo, Mississippi) is a former Texas theater teacher currently living in Oxford, Mississippi. He taught at schools in College Station, Fort Bend, Temple, Magnolia and Klein. On August 3, 2015, he allegedly sent a text message inviting a seventeen-year-old College Station High School student to his apartment, gave him an alcoholic beverage, massaged his back and shoulders, then led him towards his bedroom, where he touched the student's genitals and attempted to undress him. After continuing to ask Stanley to stop, the student was able to distract him long enough to get dressed and leave Stanley's residence. The student informed a member of his family hours later, and the police were notified. The police asked the student to call Stanley, which they recorded. During the call, Stanley immediately apologized and admitted providing the student with alcohol, giving him a massage, and inappropriately touching him. He also promised the student a prominent theater position "if we could just move on."
On August 4th, Stanley was arrested at 6:45 p.m. at his residence and the police executed a search warrant, seizing electronic devices such as laptops and cell phones, according to the Brazos County court documents on Justice Web, which are now inaccessible online. Stanley was booked on a $35,000 bond and released later that day. He was placed on administrative leave by College Station High School the day after his arrest. The same day, a nineteen-year-old former student of Stanley's from Magnolia High School told KBTX News 3 that he was sexually assaulted by Stanley three months earlier, after the student had moved to College Station. Known under the pseudonym Felix, he says Stanley texted him out of the blue, wanting to catch up. Felix claims Stanley brought him to his apartment, where they decided to watch a movie. Stanley made him two drinks, and Felix states "My vision starts to go blurry and the last thing I remember is he was massaging my back and I was fully clothed and everything." He says he woke up the next day with his clothes off and Stanley attempting to perform a sex act on him. He believes that Stanley should not be allowed to teach or be around any students again to prevent further victims.
On August 25th, Stanley turned in his letter of resignation. On September 4th, TMZ released an article about Jim Parsons, stating that Stanley and Parsons were roommates and friends in college and providing a video of Parsons mentioning Stanley in his 2010 Emmy acceptance speech. A representative for Parsons told TMZ that the two "were friends but have not been in contact for several years." On March 24, 2016, Stanley was indicted on one second degree felony of improper relationship between educator and student for the alleged incident between him and the seventeen-year-old male. If convicted, he faces up to twenty years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and a maximum $10,000 fine. With time off for good behavior and participating in a work program, he will be eligible for parole after serving less than one-eighth of his sentence and will be released to mandatory supervision after serving less than one-half, unless a parole panel determines that his release would endanger the public and that he has not been rehabilitated, in which case, he will not receive mandatory supervision. If denied mandatory supervision or parole, he will be eligible for reconsideration on the anniversary of each rejection. He will not face sex offender registration under Chapter 62 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure.
Stanley has had several trial dates since his arrest, with the most recent being scheduled to start on November 2, 2020. His other trial dates were February 27, 2017, August 7, 2017, October 23, 2017, April 16, 2018, October 1, 2018, November 12, 2018, April 1, 2019, May 20, 2019, August 5, 2019, October 8, 2019, February 10, 2020, and May 11, 2020. In total, his trial has been delayed twelve times in three-and-a-half years. Out of the twelve delays, Stanley was responsible for three, due to requesting two continuances in order to obtain evidence. The third delay was caused by Stanley pleading guilty on October 7, 2019, then withdrawing his guilty plea on November 21st, the day before his sentencing hearing. The other delays were for various reasons, such as Stanley's attorney visiting his sick father and father-in-law on two separate occasions, Stanley's attorney traveling out of state to attend his sister's wedding, and concerns over the coronavirus pandemic.

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