According to media reports, at least six female teachers have been arrested in the United States for having sexual relations with their students. All the arrests were reportedly made within a short span of two days.
One of the arrests involved 38-year-old Ellen Shell from Danville, who was accused of having sexual intercourse on three occasions with two 16-year-old boys, as per a criminal complaint filed in her case. The teacher has been charged with third-degree rape.
As per reports, she worked as a teacher's aide at Woodlawn Elementary School and was employed at Lancaster Elementary School prior to that, according to WTKR.
A substitute teacher in Lincoln County has been charged in connection with an inappropriate relationship she was having with a 15-year-old student, according to KOCO.
According to KOCO, Hancock, a former substitute teacher with Wellston Public Schools, allegedly began conversing with the teen last October and finally began emailing the 15-year-old nude pictures. The couple eventually had illicit relations on school grounds state media reports.
In another case, Heather Hare, a 32-year-old teacher from Arkansas was reportedly in a sexual relationship with a teen student, stated the Arkansas Times. A 26-year-old Emily Hancock from Oklahoma was also held after the local police were ttold about her alleged relationship with a student, stated a New York Post report.
Kristen Gantt, 36, an English teacher at a Catholic high school in Des Moines, Iowa, was arrested on Friday for reportedly having sex with a juvenile pupil five times inside and outside her school, according to local media.
Gantt groomed the youngster via social media, according to investigators, and surveillance cameras captured them entering a classroom alone with papered-up windows.
