Karen Robbins, a former teacher, was charged with having sex with a teenage boy, the third teacher in the same county accused of such crimes in the past year and a half.
Robbins, 49, was arrested over the weekend and charged with three counts each of criminal sexual conduct with a minor and committing a lewd act on a child. The sex occurred with a 15-year-old in her car and twice at her home between September and November 2005, according to arrest warrants.
Robbins was a private school teacher at the time, and officials said the accusations did not involve one of her students.
Robbins was released from jail on a $90,000 bail.
The now-17-year-old boy in Robbins' case, a former student at Bell Street Middle School, is cooperating with authorities, Peace said.
Police said they began investigating after school officials turned over letters in July found at Bell Street Middle, where Robbins worked during the 2006-2007 school year.
Earlier this month, Allena Ward, also a former Bell Street Middle teacher, pleaded guilty to having sex with five teenage boys, some of them students where she taught.
Wendie Ann Schweikert, a former elementary school teacher in Laurens County, was sentenced in June to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to having sex with an 11-year-old student. Ward has not yet been sentenced.
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