Arkansas Teacher Accused of Sex with Male Student

(Magnolia, Arkansas) A 30-year-old English teacher at Magnolia Junior High School, Allison Dean, was arrested today for allegedly providing drugs and engaging in sex with a male student. Dean faces eight counts of felony sexual assault.

Dean resigned her position with the Magnolia School District.


[Update 08/23/08]

From NWA News:

The teenager was interviewed Monday by Lt. Kevin Booth, a Columbia County sheriff’s office criminal investigator. The affidavit said the teenager told Booth that at the start of the spring semester this year, Dean approached him at school and began to talk to him.

The teenager also said Dean asked for his cell-phone number and began to call and send him text messages, the affidavit said. [...]

The affidavit said the teenager said Dean would pick him up near his home and they would go to the Genestet water well on County Road 76, near Waldo. He said that Dean performed oral sex on him five times and that he and Dean had sexual intercourse on three occasions.

The teenager also told Booth that they would smoke marijuana provided by Dean each time he and Dean had sexual contact, according to the affidavit.

The investigation continues.


[Update 10/9/09]

Allison Dean pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.