Teacher Indicted for Sex with Boy

(Wytheville, Virginia) Last January, 41-year-old English teacher at Scott Memorial Middle School, Karen Susan Patton, was arrested for allegedly engaging in a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old student. Patton, a married mother of two, resigned her teaching position.

This week, Patton, now 42, was indicted by a Wythe County grand jury. She faces four counts of unlawful carnal knowledge and one count of non-forcible sodomy.

A trial date of March 6 has been scheduled.


[Update 03/13/07]

Patton pleads no contest.


[Update 06/26/07]

Patton sentenced.