In spring 2025, a sixth-grade teacher in Nebraskaencountered a student while serving as a high school wrestling coach.
Authorities say Cody Pester, 26, began exchanging text messages with the student on May 10 — the same day she graduated from high school in Palmyra — according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by the publication.
By July 18, 2025, the two had decided to enter into an intimate relationship, based on statements attributed to both Pester and the unnamed woman, who was 18 at the time, the affidavit says…