A teacher kidnapped her 15-year-old lover and went on the run so that he wouldn’t spill the beans about their affair.

Lisa Lavoie (24) from Holyoke, Massachusetts evaded capture for eight days with the pupil, with whom she had been having a secret sexual relationship.

The boy’s parents got wind of the affair and had informed the school.

Lavoie was supposed to be questioned regarding the allegations the following day – but she had already disappeared.

The sex scandal teacher took her 15-year-old lover with her when she escaped.

And when the FBI searched for the pair, they suspected that they had already made it as far as Mexico or Canada.

But both were found in a hotel in Morgantown, West Virginia and Lavoie now faces charges of kidnapping and seducing a minor.

It was the young teacher's first job and she had only been in the profession for five months!

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