A 16-year-old Union High School student has been charged with distributing pictures of a teacher from the teacher's cellphone, according to the Union Public Safely Department. The teenager is charged with computer crimes and aggravated voyeurism, police said. Teacher Leigh Anne Arthur said she left her phone on her desk Monday while she was patrolling a hallway in the Career and Technology Center at Union County High School during a class change.To watch Arthur's interview and read her story, click HERE.She said the 16-year-old boy took her phone and used his own phone to take pictures of an image on Arthur’s phone of her in a sexy pose. Arthur told investigators she took the picture to send to her husband for Valentine’s Day. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division confirmed that the pictures that the teen took from the phone were stored in his phone in a pass code-protected file that contained other pictures that were sexual in nature. To read release from superintendent that blames Arthur for incident, click hereThousands of students and others have signed an online petition pushing for Arthur to be reinstated.“After being escorted off of school property, we (the students) are left to believe that she has been forced to, or given little choice but to resign. Mrs. Arthur has not only shown tremendous dedication to her students, but also the mechatronics program itself, often reaching out to local businesses and colleges to get materials that would not normally be available for the class," students said.The teenager is in the Department of Juvenile Justice Center in Columbia. Arthur has said that she isn't sure she would want her job back.

A 16-year-old Union High School student has been charged with distributing pictures of a teacher from the teacher's cellphone, according to the Union Public Safely Department.

The teenager is charged with computer crimes and aggravated voyeurism, police said.


Teacher Leigh Anne Arthur said she left her phone on her desk Monday while she was patrolling a hallway in the Career and Technology Center at Union County High School during a class change.

To watch Arthur's interview and read her story, click HERE.

She said the 16-year-old boy took her phone and used his own phone to take pictures of an image on Arthur’s phone of her in a sexy pose. Arthur told investigators she took the picture to send to her husband for Valentine’s Day.

The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division confirmed that the pictures that the teen took from the phone were stored in his phone in a pass code-protected file that contained other pictures that were sexual in nature.

To read release from superintendent that blames Arthur for incident, click here

Thousands of students and others have signed an online petition pushing for Arthur to be reinstated.

“After being escorted off of school property, we (the students) are left to believe that she has been forced to, or given little choice but to resign. Mrs. Arthur has not only shown tremendous dedication to her students, but also the mechatronics program itself, often reaching out to local businesses and colleges to get materials that would not normally be available for the class," students said.

The teenager is in the Department of Juvenile Justice Center in Columbia.

Arthur has said that she isn't sure she would want her job back.