The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals dropped charges against teacher who sexted with a 13-year-old student, citing a previous case that calls these interactions free speech, KSWO-TV reported.

The Texas DA dropped charges against a teacher who reportedly sexted with a 13-year-old student. (Creative Commons)

The Texas teacher, Sean Arlis Williams who’s now 31, exchanged hundreds of messages with a 13-year-old student, some of them sexually explicit, the Fort Worth Star Telegram reported.

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The teen and Williams sent 688 texts over six days in October 2012. The messages became sexual, according to an affidavit.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled that a 2005 statute was unconstitutional. The statute would have made sexually explicit online messages illegal, but it was ruled as “violating free speech.”

According to Fox, the texts messages included details such as "if either of them walked around naked in their homes... descriptions of their sexual preferences and fantasies."

The texts also included a photo of the victim in her bra, Fox reported.

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