Lawton, OK - In May of 2024, V1SUT reported about Nicko Mistystarr Deocampo Miranda (44), a ‘trans’ teacher and volleyball coach at Eisenhower High School in Lawton, Oklahoma, arrested for conducting a sexual relationship with a female student and volleyball player.
From Miranda’s initial hiring in 2022, Lawton Public Schools allowed parents to believe she was a male teacher. In reporting her arrest, the local, legacy media similarly reported Miranda to be male despite her placement in the women’s area of the Comanche County Detention Center.
Lawton, OK - On March 13, 2024, an arrest warrant was issued for Nicko Deocampo Miranda (43), computer teacher and girls volleyball coach at Eisenhower High School in Lawton, Oklahoma. The charge of felony sexual battery involves one of Miranda’s female students. The media, both local and national, promptly and inaccurately reported on the story.
Nicko Miranda at arrest, March 13, 2024.
ABC affiliate KSWO (channel 7) in Lawton reported Miranda “turned himself in after being accused of an inappropriate relationship with one of his students”. The Lawton Constitution stated, “A felony warrant has been filed for the man’s arrest.” MicroSoft News (MSN) echoed local reporting adding, “His bond is set for $100,000 and he faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.”
While reports concerning multiple sleepovers at the coach’s residence and months of sexually explicit text messages between the coach and student were accurately pulled from court documents, a major error occurred in every legacy media account of this story. Miranda is a woman.
Case documents reveal the investigation by the Lawton Police Department began after the mother of a Lawton HS student reported her daughter’s GPS location as frequently being at Miranda’s residence, including during overnight stays.
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The level of sentencing leniency in this case reveals a lack of prosecutorial and judicial understanding of the groomed relationship between student sexual abuse victims and their coach/teacher perpetrators. Miranda will serve no prison time.
Just one week after being served with a subpoena, the student/victim in the case made a motion requesting the lifting of the bond condition requiring Miranda to have no contact with her.
Rarely do young victims of sexual abuse recognize the exploitive nature of their relationship with an adult perpetrator until well into adulthood. Referred to as trauma bonding, youth often have feelings of loyalty, sympathy and protection toward their adult abuser, make excuses for that person’s behavior, and find it difficult to disconnect from the groomed relationship until distance, healing, time and maturity allow for a realistic assessment of the connection.
After pleading not guilty to the charge of felony sexual battery in June of 2024, Miranda accepted a plea deal recommended to the court by the state in December.
She pled guilty to the same charge of sexual battery but her ten (10) year sentence was entirely suspended. Miranda was ordered to pay $50 per month on a $1,000 fine, and cannot be employed by or within a school system during her two (2) years of supervised probation.
Miranda was convicted under state statute (21 O.S. 1123(B)) which states:
(3) No person shall commit sexual battery on any other person. “Sexual battery” shall mean the intentional touching, mauling or feeling of the body or private parts of any person sixteen (16) years of age or older, in a lewd and lascivious manner.
(B) When committed upon a person who is at least sixteen (16) years of age and is less than twenty (20) years of age and is a student, or in the legal custody or supervision of any public or private elementary or secondary school, or technology center school, by a person who is eighteen (18) years of age or older and is an employee of a school system.
The plea deal avoiding prison time is well outside of the same section of state statute which specifies mandatory felon status and imprisonment for those convicted under 21 O.S. 1123(B):
(D) Any person convicted of a violation of subsection B or C of this section shall be deemed guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections for not more than ten (10) years.
The plea deal also required Miranda to surrender her “teaching license” to the OSDE though her emergency certification in computer science and adjunct certification in general industrial arts expired prior to her conviction.
Current listing for Nicko Miranda in OSDE educator certification database.
At this time, the state has no mechanism to flag the ordered surrender of Miranda’s now expired certifications within its teacher certification system. State Board of Education meeting minutes confirm Miranda’s certifications were not considered for surrender, suspension or revocation prior to their expiration.
The plea deal did require Miranda to register as a sex offender making her ineligible to hold future teaching certifications within Oklahoma.
As listed within her sex offender registry and suggested by her current voter registration, Miranda has utilized several male and female combinations of her names making tracking of her records during a background check more difficult. Within the criminal case, the court had to separately correct both Miranda’s first name and social security number.
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Within Miranda’s criminal case, court records name attorney Michael Beason as initial prosecutor on behalf of District 5 DA Kyle Cabelka (R) though Beason did not attend any hearings associated with the case. Court entries confirm ADA Madeline Vasquez attended all related hearings on behalf of DA Cabelka’s office. Vasquez recommended the plea deal involving Miranda to the court on December 19, 2024.
In addition to criminal casework for DA Cabelka, Beason also serves as general counsel for the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) under State Superintendent Ryan Walters (R). We reached out to both DA Cabelka’s office and the OSDE to learn if Beason handed the case to ADA Vasquez as court records suggest to avoid any conflict of interest concerning his role at OSDE. As of publication, V1SUT had not received a comment from either.
Supt Walters (top) and OSDE counsel Michael Beason (top L), Jan 2025 SBE meeting.
Both Beason and Walters have been aggressive in pursuing the revocation of educator certifications following investigations involving teacher misconduct including an unprecedented number of cases of student sexual abuse. Under Walters’ leadership, the OSDE now has a team of investigators with law enforcement experience fielding direct reports from parents and whistleblowers through the agency’s online Awareity system.
DA Cabelka was appointed to the bench in District 5 by Governor Stitt (R) in 2021 after the retirement of Fred C. Smith and was described by Stitt’s office as having “led Comanche County’s Multi-Disciplinary Team, formed under state statute, to protect children from abuse”. Calelka declined to comment on Miranda’s plea deal.
Miranda’s plea deal was approved by District Judge Scott Meaders, a graduate of Eisenhower High School where Miranda taught and coached. Meaders was first appointed to his position in 2017 by then Governor Mary Fallin (R).
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As previously reported by V1SUT, Lawton Public Schools was required to document Miranda’s biological gender as female during the background check process but allowed her to present to students and parents exclusively as a male.
Even in a state like Oklahoma where gender markers cannot be legally changed and nonbinary is not an option on birth certificates, Nicko Miranda was able to teach and coach as the opposite gender for nearly two years, unbeknownst to parents.
Miranda coaching at EHS (Aug 2022), public post Facebook.
Both personally and professionally, Miranda was presented to the Lawton community, students and parents as a family man.
In an ongoing trend among progressive, public education districts and administrators, Lawton Public Schools named “Mr. Miranda”, now a registered sex offender, as Rookie Teacher of the Year during her first year of teaching (2022-23).
Lawton Schools Superintendent Kevin Hime was unwilling to comment on Miranda’s arrest, district policy related to the state’s locker room law, whether the OSDE was informed Miranda would be teaching/coaching as a male or the importance of transparency in public education.
A statement by the school district at the time of Miranda’s arrest refers to Miranda only as an employee and does not include any gender identifying pronouns:
“Upon notification of an allegation, the employee was immediately placed on administrative leave. Law enforcement and all proper authorities were notified and an investigation was conducted. The employee is no longer with the district. Safety is at the forefront of our priorities and we take every report seriously.”
As Miranda was being hired, Hime and his wife were being celebrated by the Lawton Board of Education and the state’s union for school administrators:
On June 23, 2022, at the very school board meeting where Miranda was hired by Lawton Public Schools, Superintendent Kevin Hime and his wife Stephanie Hime were recognized for receiving top awards from the state’s increasingly progressive association for public school administrators. Kevin and Stephanie Hime were named CCOSA/OASA’s 2022 Superintendent of the Year and Administrator of the Year respectively.
From Lawton Board of Ed June 2022 meeting minutes.
Currently, Kevin Hime’s annual compensation package from Lawton Public Schools totals $320,559. Only 10% of Eisenhower High School students currently test as proficient in math. Across the district, 1 out of 4 students do not graduate after four (4) years of high school.
The Cooperative Council for Oklahoma School Administration (CCOSA) is the umbrella NGO over five (5) other related associations including Oklahoma Association of School Administrators (OASA). The conglomerate is lead largely by highly paid, retired school administrators. They provide lobbying and legal services to protect school administrators. Their online list of “LEGISLATIVE GOALS AND GUIDING PRINCIPLES 2024-25” includes a heavy focus on education funding and educator pay but never once mentions parents.
Both CCOSA and OASA are led by Pam Deering, former district superintendent of Mid-Del and Oklahoma City Schools. 2023 IRS filings for CCOSA show Deering’s total annual compensation from that NGO’s to be $198,984, and Kevin Hime to have been a director for CCOSA at that time making his award internally nepotistic.
Hime’s brother Shawn Hime, retired superintendent of Enid Schools, is current director of the Oklahoma State School Boards Association Inc (OSSBA), the education NGO providing local elected school board members across the state with legal advice and protection, interpretation of state law and training on how to evaluate their district’s superintendent. According to IRS filings for 2023, Shawn Hime receives total annual compensation of $336,794 as executive director of OSSBA.
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Thank you for this information. It puts a lot of things in a much better perspective on how “they have been playing the game” and continue to play that game here in Comanche County. Wow!! No wonder!
Thank you for this information. It puts a lot of things in a much better perspective on how “they have been playing the game” and continue to play that game here in Comanche County. Wow!! No wonder!
Lawton protects diddlers. Imagine that.