The wife of a High School principal is facing up to two years in jail for having a three-year affair with an under age student.
JoAnn Stephens, from Texas, pleaded guilty to a single charge of improper conduct after a plea deal with prosecutors.
Four other charges against her were dropped.
The 43-year-old had an affair with a 15-year-old student at her husband’s school where she was working as a substitute teacher.
Stephens was an elementary physical education teacher and girls’ athletics coach at Mineola ISD. Before she resigned in December, she had been an employee with the school district since 2006.
The alleged relationship with the male student started when he was 15. He graduated in 2010, according to the probable cause affidavit.
The affair lasted three years and only ended after the pair were caught leaving a secluded spot where they had sex.
Mineola Police Department received a complaint from Child Protective Services in August regarding a ‘reported inappropriate relationship’ between a school employee and a student.
After several months of investigations, officers found probable cause existed to charge Stephens with the offence of ‘improper relationship between educator and student’, according to police information.
Investigators found DNA evidence from both the teacher and the boy inside a pick-up truck that linked the two together.
