A Texas middle school teacher accused of having sex with a 15-year-old student is also pregnant.
Katherine Ruth Harper, 27, was arrested last week after a three-month investigation into her alleged sexual relationship with a former student. The pair met when she was his tennis coach and teacher at Tidwell Middle School in Roanoke, Texas.
Police said the seventh grade teacher and teen exchanged nude photos and had sex multiple times. They would also often reportedly drink alcohol when they would meet up at each other’s homes.
Harper is eight-months pregnant, but an arrest affidavit doesn’t state whether the 15-year-old is the baby’s father, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
School administrators received an anonymous tip in September about the relationship and notified authorities, news station KDAF reported.
The student reportedly confessed to his high school principal about the affair.
“One thing led to another and she told me to ‘put it in’ and I did,” the teen said, according to the police warrant.
Harper was charged with having an improper relationship between an educator and student. She was booked at Denton County jail and released after posting the $15,000 bail.