An arrest warrant has been issued for a Franklin High School teacher after detectives found that she engaged in sex acts with a student, Baltimore County police said. Police said Ekatherine Pappas, 24, of Nottingham, started teaching Spanish at the school on Nov. 16. A school resource officer became aware Thursday of a video showing a female teacher engaged in a sex act with a male student, police said. "He came across a student who actually had a copy of the video on their phone," Baltimore County police Officer Jennifer Peach said. Detectives confirmed the existence of the video and the teacher’s involvement in sex acts with the 16-year-old student on two occasions, once on Dec. 21 and again on Dec. 22. The incidents were not committed on school property, police said. "As a teacher, she should've known that she's not allowed to have any kind of a relationship with a student, and secondly a sexual relationship is an unlawful relationship between her age and a 16-year-old child," Peach said. She will be charged with sexual abuse of a minor, fourth-degree sexual offense and related charges. "We don't have any information right now that there was anybody else involved with her only that one student," Peach said. Pappas has left the country, police said. "She left sometime during this timeframe. It's unclear whether this was something that was previously planned or if this was a sudden exit of the country," Peach said. A Baltimore County Public Schools spokesman told 11 News that "appropriate personnel action is being taken to include a recommendation of termination." Anyone with information that could help detectives, including finding Pappas, is asked to call Baltimore County police at 410-307-2020.

An arrest warrant has been issued for a Franklin High School teacher after detectives found that she engaged in sex acts with a student, Baltimore County police said.


Police said Ekatherine Pappas, 24, of Nottingham, started teaching Spanish at the school on Nov. 16.

A school resource officer became aware Thursday of a video showing a female teacher engaged in a sex act with a male student, police said.

"He came across a student who actually had a copy of the video on their phone," Baltimore County police Officer Jennifer Peach said.

Detectives confirmed the existence of the video and the teacher’s involvement in sex acts with the 16-year-old student on two occasions, once on Dec. 21 and again on Dec. 22. The incidents were not committed on school property, police said.

"As a teacher, she should've known that she's not allowed to have any kind of a relationship with a student, and secondly a sexual relationship is an unlawful relationship between her age and a 16-year-old child," Peach said.

She will be charged with sexual abuse of a minor, fourth-degree sexual offense and related charges.

"We don't have any information right now that there was anybody else involved with her only that one student," Peach said.

Pappas has left the country, police said.

"She left sometime during this timeframe. It's unclear whether this was something that was previously planned or if this was a sudden exit of the country," Peach said.

A Baltimore County Public Schools spokesman told 11 News that "appropriate personnel action is being taken to include a recommendation of termination."

Anyone with information that could help detectives, including finding Pappas, is asked to call Baltimore County police at 410-307-2020.