Who is Spencer Herron and where is he now?

Posted by Zora Stowers on Saturday, May 4, 2024

A SCHOOL district was riddled with scandal as their previously named Teacher of the Year pleaded guilty to sexual assault.

The case of disgraced former Carlton J. Kell High School teacher Spencer Herron is revisited in ABC's Betrayal: The Perfect Husband.

Who is Spencer Herron?

Spencer Herron is a teacher-turned-sex offender who taught at Carlton J. Kell High School in Marietta, Georgia.

While an educator at Kell, he taught classes in video production.

An educator at the school for 16 years, Herron was named Cobb County's Teacher of the Year 2016-2017.

On June 1, 2018, Herron was arrested in relation to two of his underage students' allegations of having sexual encounters with him.

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He was also accused of groping a third student and was indicted in August of the same year.

On January 18, 2019, he pleaded guilty to five counts of sexual assault.

He was sentenced to five years in prison and 15 years on probation.

For the duration of his sentence, he remained incarcerated at Wilcox State Prison.

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Where is Spencer Herron now?

In the summer of 2022, Herron was released from Wilcox State Prison and was ordered to register as a sex offender in Gwinnett County.

"I never would have imagined the scope of what he had done," remembered Herron's ex-wife Jenifer Faison.

In Betrayal: The Perfect Husband, she recalls: "He was living a double life.

"Who was this predator that I was married to? I was just looking for all the answers.

"Little did I know, I was married to a man who had done something so horrible that it would devastate our lives and change us forever.

"Like, I needed a timeline. I needed to know when did this start, and when did this end?

"If it ever ended, I had to see...was it anything that I had done at any point?"

Where can I watch Betrayal: The Perfect Husband?

On July 11, 2023, Betrayal: The Perfect Husband was released via Hulu.

The docuseries is based on Faison's podcast of the same name.

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While discussing her ex-husband's crimes, she says: "The healing's not over yet. I'm not out of the woods yet.

"It's only been four years. I am still clawing my way back out of this deep dark hole that I fell into."

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