Florida Youth Academy counselor arrested

MacClenny resident Libby Louise Alexander Chrome, 27, was arrested for an authority figure soliciting lewd conduct with a student.

According to an arrest affidavit, the defendant was an employee at the Florida Challenge Youth Academy at Camp Blanding when she engaged in a romantic relationship with a 16-year-old student at the academy.

A detective with the Clay County Sheriff’s Office Special Victims Unit wrote in the affidavit that the victim’s mother provided cell phone communications to the detective between the victim and the defendant.

Detective Jamie Crider wrote that she interviewed the victim and academy staff in April. The officer questioned the defendant at a Middleburg convenience store in July.

“Based on the victim’s interview,” the detective wrote, “the victim’s phone messages, the love notes and emails, the defendant had a relationship of a romantic nature with a student/victim while being in a position of authority.”