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Teacher quits to be with 15 year old

A SCHOOL teacher is facing a string of charges including rape, after she had an affair with a 15-year-old boy and was caught having sex with him in a hotel room.

Oklahoma-based middle school teacher Jennifer Sexton, 28, struck up a relationship with a teenage student months before she was caught by police.

She also continued their affair even after her resignation from Hollis Middle School.

Sexton was being investigated by police after locals in the community reported her suspicious behaviour after seeing her with the student.

“People seeing a teacher alone with a child may or may not be anything. It could just be innocent contact,” Harmon County Assistant District Attorney Eric Yarborough told the Oklahoman newspaper.

While Sexton had resigned from her job as an English teacher in April amid the allegations of her having an affair with a student, police lacked any proof to arrest her.

But after they discovered her having sex with the student on June 18, at a Best Western Hotel in Mississippi, they did make their arrest.

Police allege Sexton followed the student to where he was spending his summer holidays, and visiting his mother.

The student, who cannot be named for legal reasons, did not tell police a lot of information about their affair to begin with.

“The child said nothing’s going on, she’s just a nice teacher,” Yarborough said.

But in a police interview, the student started to reveal he had had several sexual encounters with Sexton.

The young boy told police that in Oklahoma months before they were caught together in a Best Western, they had sex several times.

He said they had sex in Sexton’s classroom just days before she resigned for the first time, and also allegedly had sex in her SUV and at her home.

The boy added they had sex in the home of Sexton’s pastor father.

Sexton, who is recently divorced from her husband, has now taken her maiden name, Caswell, back.

She is in police custody and faces three counts of second-degree rape, two counts of enticing a child, and one forcible sodomy count.