A teacher has been exposed for having a sexual relationship with a
pupil after admitting a naked selfie may be circulating among her
students, police say.
Biology teacher Ashley Elizabeth Zehnder,
24, went to the assistant head teacher at Pasadena High School in
Houston claiming that pupils had got hold of a nude photo of her from an
old mobile.
But when senior staff investigated further, a
17-year-old boy said he had the picture because Zehnder had sent it to
him and they had been sleeping together since May.
KHOU.com reports
Zehnder later resigned, and when prosecutors presented her with
explicit texts between herself and the student she admitted to the
relationship.
Assistant district attorney Nick Socias said: "She
admitted to sending the nude photo to the student, knowing in fact that
he was a student, and that they had sex."
Zehnder appeared in
court on Monday charged with having an inappropriate relationship with a
student, and has been released on bail.
The mum-of-one was accused of having a three-month affair with the teenager after he contacted her on social media.
Also in September, it emerged a Texas teacher had performed a lap dance for one of her pupils in a room full of other students , because she wanted to give the 15-year-old birthday present.