NC Teacher Gets Prison for Sex with Student - Updated

(Winston-Salem, North Carolina) Thirty-two-year-old English teacher at Atkins High School, Amy Yarbrough, pleaded guilty earlier today to engaging in a sexual relationship with a male student.

As a result, she was sentenced to two years in prison.

Winston-Salem Detective Gary East testified in court that two custodian workers reported to the school principal last November that Yarbrough was staying late into the evening and kept the door to her classroom locked.

After the custodians made the complaint, investigators were planning to install a surveillance camera in her classroom, but before it was installed, a school resource officer and the school vice principal caught the two in the act, East said.

East also read a statement from the 16-year-old male student, who Yarbrough was tutoring in English. According to that statement, the two had been having unprotected sex once a week for about three weeks.

Yarbrough must also serve one year of probation and register as a sex offender for 30 years.

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NC Teacher Accused of Inappropriate Behavior with Student
[Previous 12/4/09 post]
(Winston-Salem, North Carolina) A 32-year-old English teacher at Atkins High School, Amy Yarbrough, was arrested last night for allegedly engaging in an inappropriate relationship with a student.

School Superintendent Don Martin suspended Yarbrough without pay. She faces multiple felony counts of sexual activity with a student and indecent liberties with a student.

Yarbrough was booked into custody at the Forsyth County Jail with bond set at $115,000.

A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for January 8.