A Georgia high school biology teacher has been arrested for alleged sexual misconduct with one of her students, including consummating their affair in a closet on school grounds.
Deputies from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office took Maris Nichols, 25, into custody on two felony counts of “sexual assault by persons with supervisory or disciplinary authority,” numerous local news outlets reported.
Nichols, a teacher at Alexander High School and also a staffer with the school’s football program, is accused of sexual relations with the student on two occasions: once on April 23 in a school closet, and again on May 2 in a Hummer parked in a residential driveway, authorities said.
The high school is located in Douglasville, a city of 35,000 about 25 miles west of Atlanta. The school has a population of about 1,800 students.
The arrest represents yet another case of educator sexual misconduct that leading
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