A Port Credit teacher is facing a number of sexual assault and luring charges in relation to a sexual assault investigation involving a grade school student.

Amanda Perreault, 27, a Grades 2 and 3 teacher at St. James Catholic Global Learning Centre on Wanita Road, was arrested and charged Monday (June 6) with sexual assault, sexual interference, luring to commit invitation to sexual touching and making sexually explicit material available to a child.

Officers have seized at least one computer as part of the probe.

Police aren’t releasing the age or gender of the alleged victim to protect the identity of the student, but a source close to the school confirmed it's a female student.

Investigators are concerned that there may be additional victims.

Perreault has been at the Port Credit school since last year and was a “teaching rep” on the school council this year. Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board spokesperson Bruce Campbell said the accused is a long-term occasional teacher with the Board and has been suspended with pay pending the outcome of the case. A letter will go home to parents Thursday.

“As members of a Catholic school community, you are asked to keep those who may be impacted by this matter in your prayers,” school principal Brian Diogo wrote in the letter.

Perreault also taught at Sts. Martha and Mary school in Mississauga and Bishop Francis Allan and St. Lucy schools in Brampton at various points over the past four years and letters will be going home with those students as well, Campbell said.

The Board opened St. James in September 2013 at the old St. James School, which closed in 2009 due to declining enrolment. The school provides “diverse and specialized learning opportunities” to students from Kindergarten to Grade 8 across Dufferin-Peel and is modelled after an internationally-recognized program, according to the school website.

Anyone with information can call the force’s Special Victims Unit at 905-453-2121, ext. 3460. Information may also be left anonymously by calling Peel Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477), or by visiting www.peelcrimestoppers.ca or by sending a text message to CRIMES (274637) with the word ‘PEEL’ and then your tip.