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from www.timesdaily.com – A Vina High School mathematics teacher was arrested Thursday after she was charged with having sex with a former student, authorities said.
Kimberly Bynum, 29, 100 Regency Plaza, Apt. E5, Russellville, is charged with being a school employee engaged in sex with a student under 19 years old, a law that came into effect July 1.
Rumors about the relationship started coming to light in the Vina community, sheriff investigators said, and the district attorney’s office notified the sheriff’s department Wednesday.
On Thursday, the 17-year-old student, who graduated this year, admitted to investigators he and Bynum had an affair, officials said. Franklin County sheriff’s investigators declined to identify the former student because he is a minor.
Investigators said they called Bynum, who voluntarily came to the Sheriff’s Department on Thursday and during questioning admitted to the relationship with the student.
The relationship started at the beginning of the school year when the two formed a friendship, according to reports.
Bynum and the student both admitted to having feelings for each other, investigators said.
Bynum grew up in Birmingham and graduated from Hewitt-Trussville High School, according to the Vina High School website. She moved from Hamilton to Russellville after she divorced, according to officials.
By Thursday, as news spread about the arrest, school officials were uncertain as to what would happen to the teacher.
“The school board will do its own investigation and go from there,” Assistant Superintendent Donald Borden said. “I’d rather not make any comments other than that because we know very little about the case.”
Bynum could be put on paid leave as school officials figure out how to proceed with the case, according to the Code of Alabama.
“A school employee charged with the crime of engaging in a sex act or deviant sexual intercourse with a student or the crime of having sexual contact with a student may be placed on paid administrative leave while the charge is adjudicated,” the act states.
Bynum remained in jail under a $10,000 bond as of late Thursday afternoon. The charge is a Class B felony with a possible sentence of two to 20 years if convicted.
The law under which Bynum is charged was outlined in a bill sponsored in 2010 by Democratic Rep. Demetrius Newton, of Birmingham. Newton introduced the bill because of an incident where a teacher and a 16-year-old student were accused of having a sexual relationship but school officials could take no action against the teacher because the student was 16, which is the age of consent in Alabama. The law provides that consent is not a defense.