UPDATE: Court records show Lauren Harrington-Cooper posted her $25,000 bail through a bondsman on Friday. She is due back in court Jan. 22 at 1:30 p.m.

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KINGSTON - The Wyoming Valley West High School teacher charged last month with having sex with a student was hit with new charges Thursday, alleging she sent explicit text messages and performed oral sex on a second boy.

Lauren Harrington-Cooper, 31, of 377 Winola Ave., Kingston, is accused of having sexual encounters in parked cars with a 17-year-old boy, and for the first time the charges allege misconduct that took place at school.

In an incident in the fall, the student asked Mrs. Harrington-Cooper, an English teacher and hall monitor, for a piece of candy, police said.

"All the candy you need is right here," she replied, court documents allege.

District Superintendent Charles Suppon said police and district administrators have launched an "extremely intensive investigation" into Mrs. Harrington-Cooper's conduct and that no evidence has surfaced of inappropriate physical contact at the school.

"At this point, the district at no time had any knowledge of any inappropriate action that we can find taking place in the school," Mr. Suppon said. "There may have been a comment between a student and a teacher, but that was between the two of them and it wasn't heard by anyone else."

Administrators have made it "specifically clear" that their doors are open for any students to come forward with information on the case or simply to talk and get counseling, he said.

Mrs. Harrington-Cooper, who was charged with institutional sexual assault last month for allegedly having sex with an 18-year-old student, was arrested Thursday on new counts of sexual contact with a student and corruption of minors.

After her first arrest, she was released on $25,000 unsecured bail. But Magisterial District Judge Paul Roberts Jr. sent her to jail for the first time following a hearing Thursday morning.

Mrs. Harrington-Cooper declined to comment as police led her to and from the courtroom. Her attorney, Joseph R. D'Andrea, said he hadn't seen the new charges but that his client maintains her innocence.

"In all of my interviews with my client, I feel confident that she was not involved with this student in any sexual way," Mr. D'Andrea said, adding that he was arranging for Mrs. Harrington-Cooper to post bail.

The second alleged victim was discovered during the investigation of the first case, Luzerne County Detective Chaz Balogh said. Authorities are unsure if there are more victims, he said.

"We're still investigating," Detective Balogh said. "It's still an ongoing matter."

The charges filed Thursday allege Ms. Harrington-Cooper's relationship with the 17-year-old began after she told a girl student she thought the boy was good-looking.

The boy later left a note with his cellphone number and a heart on it on Mrs. Harrington-Cooper's desk, according to a police affidavit. Mrs. Harrington-Cooper texted him with three other students' names, trying to identify whose number it was, police said.

Once the boy identified himself, Mrs. Harrington-Cooper began sending sexually explicit emails talking about having sex with the boy and asking him not to tell anyone about their conversations so she wouldn't get in trouble, police said.

After about two weeks of texting, they arranged to meet and the boy picked Mrs. Harrington-Cooper up from her home. A neighbor saw her leaving and asked where she was going; Mrs. Harrington-Cooper replied that she was going out drinking, according to the affidavit.

The victim told police they drove around for about an hour and a half and then parked in front of her house, where they began making out and fondling each other, police said.

One weekend in November, Mrs. Harrington-Cooper contacted the boy at about 2:30 a.m. and arranged to meet him, according to police. They drove to the McDonald's in Edwardsville and then parked in front of a Kingston house, according to the affidavit.

Mrs. Harrington-Cooper told the boy she wanted to have sex but couldn't because she had her period, and instead performed oral sex on the boy, police said.

The boy told police Mrs. Harrington-Cooper continued to send sexually suggestive texts and that he got uncomfortable about it. He began limiting his contact.

"What 17-year-old doesn't want to have sex with his 31-year-old teacher?" she asked him, according to the affidavit.

Mrs. Harrington-Cooper also asked the boy on several occasions to delete their text messages because she was afraid someone would see them, police said.

During her hearing Thursday, Mrs. Harrington-Cooper offered Judge Roberts soft-spoken, monosyllabic answers. She said she has lived at her home for six years with her husband and that she is still employed by the Wyoming Valley West School District.

Detective Balogh told the judge Mrs. Harrington-Cooper has been sending messages to one of the students involved in the case and asked Judge Roberts to put a stop to it.

Judge Roberts set her bail at $25,000 and ordered her to have "no contact whatsoever" with any high school students, regardless of age. She was also ordered not to have unsupervised contact with any minors.

Mrs. Harrington-Cooper, whose salary was $45,075 a year, was suspended without pay after her first arrest last month. In that case, she is accused of performing oral sex on an 18-year-old senior three times and having intercourse with him twice.

Mr. Suppon said the district is holding a Loudermill hearing for Mrs. Harrington-Cooper in the near future in which she will have an opportunity to respond to the charges. Results of that hearing will be forwarded to the school board for action, he said.

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