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Former middle school teacher convicted of raping student

Patrick Corr faces 22 1/2 years in prison at sentencing

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A former Albuquerque middle school teacher faces 22 1/2 years in prison after a jury found him guilty Monday of giving a student alcohol and sexually abusing her.

Patrick Corr

Patrick Corr, 34, who formerly taught English at John Adams Middle School, was convicted of four felony charges, including criminal sexual penetration of a minor, two counts of child abuse and one count of giving alcohol to a minor.

Second Judicial District Court Judge Clara Moran has not set Carr's sentencing hearing.

Corr also faces a second trial in September for allegedly raping a 15-year-old girl who became pregnant as a result.

Second Judicial District Attorney Sam Bregman credited prosecutors Rebekah Reyes and Savannah Brandenburg-Koch with the conviction.

“Rebekah and Savannah are relentless when it comes to getting justice for victims. They are tough, compassionate, and never give up,” Bregman said in a statement.

“We’re proud of the work they do, often handling back-to-back trials. We hope this brings some sense of justice for Corr’s victim.”

Suspicions about Corr surfaced in May 2024 when teachers at John Adams complained to the principal that they felt “extremely uncomfortable” after Corr laid his body across two female students upon returning to the school from a field trip, according to a criminal complaint filed in Metropolitan Court.

Three months after the field trip, the principal and a teacher were cleaning out Corr’s former classroom and found a cabinet containing notes from students referring to him as “hot” or “Daddy Corr,” the complaint states. The discovery led officers with the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office’s Special Victims Unit to begin an investigation in May 2025.

Corr was placed on leave that month and resigned from Albuquerque Public Schools on May 14, 2025. John Adams is the only APS school Corr worked at, and he had been with the district since 2019, an APS spokesman said at the time.

He has remained in custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center since his arrest in June 2025.

Corr "engaged in sexual relationships with students and provided alcohol to students as a teacher at John Adams Middle School," prosecutors wrote in court records.

Deputies interviewed a 16-year-old girl, a former student of Corr's, who said that Corr provided her with alcohol and had sex with her, prosecutors wrote.

In his trial last week, prosecutors focused on Snapchat messages between Corr and students.

Sheriff's deputies executed a search warrant on Corr's Snapchat account and found he had messaged more than 50 students in which he spoke about his personal love life and solicited nude photos from students, the complaint said. Corr also messaged students about alcohol and drug use.

In the upcoming rape case, a girl told Bernalillo County deputies that Corr invited her and her stepsister to a party at his house, where the girl drank alcohol before having sex with Corr, the complaint said.

The girl initially told Corr she was 19 but later admitted to him that she was 15, the complaint said. Corr allegedly laughed and said he “figured she was lying about her age,” it said.