A Murrieta Valley High School teacher placed on administrative leave earlier this week was arrested on suspicion of three felony sex counts on Friday, Dec. 4, according to jailhouse records.

Shannon Fosgett, 44, was arrested in Murrieta and booked into the Robert Presley Detention Center on suspicion of unlawful sex with a minor and two counts of oral copulation with a person under 18, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department jail information system.

On Tuesday, Dec. 1, the Murrieta Valley Unified School District issued a statement saying Fosgett was under investigation for inappropriate conduct with a student and had been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.

The school district reported Fosgett was hired at Murrieta Valley High School in 2014.

— Tom Sheridan

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