LUTZ —A teacher at the K-8 Learning Gate Community School was arrested Thursday on allegations he sent explicit texts to a 14-year-old student this summer, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.

Scott Robert Wilson, 36, was booked into Orient Road Jail on a charge of distributing obscene material to a minor.

The investigation started Wednesday, when deputies said the 14-year-old's mother found inappropriate text messages from Wilson on the teen's cell phone and contacted the Sheriff's Office.

The sexually explicit messages were exchanged via Snapchat from May to July, the arrest report said.

When detectives questioned Wilson on Thursday, they said he admitted to sending the explicit messages despite the student's age.

The teen, who was not identified by deputies, no longer attends the charter school's kindergarten through sixth-grade campus at 16215 Hanna Road, near Nebraska and Bearss Avenues.

Learning Gate's website describes the A-rated charter school as "the first environmentally-focused charter school in the state of Florida," where students maintain an organic garden and learn in award-winning "green" classrooms. Located on a 27-acre woodland preserve boasting nature trails and a historic log cabin, the school said it is "committed to ecology and the environment while maintaining the comfort of an old one room school house."

Detectives believe this is an isolated incident, but ask anyone with additional information about this case to call the Sheriff's Office at (813) 247-8200.

Wilson, of 6147 Gardendale Drive, was being held in the county jail in lieu of $2,000 bail.

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