Teacher placed on leave
Posted on 04/10/2007 5:32:23 PM PDT by Rodney King


By JARED JANES Advocate staff writer Published: Apr 10, 2007 - Page: 1B
A Tara High School science teacher, accused of having sexual relations with a 16-year-old student, including one occasion at the school, was arrested last week.

Jamie Lynn Armstrong, 23, was booked Thursday into Parish Prison on counts of felony carnal knowledge of a juvenile and contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile, East Baton Rouge Parish SheriffÂ’s Office spokesman Fred Raiford said.

Armstrong, 8939 Jefferson Highway, Apt. 206, was released Friday on $20,000 bond.

She will be removed from the classroom and placed on paid administrative leave, East Baton Rouge Parish school spokesman Chris Trahan said. The school will conduct an internal investigation.

Trahan could not provide details of ArmstrongÂ’s employment Monday.

The female student was not in ArmstrongÂ’s class, but Armstrong tutored her several times a week, Raiford said.

The girlÂ’s father reported her missing on Wednesday when he found a note saying she was running away.

When deputies arrived at the fatherÂ’s home, he showed them his daughterÂ’s diary, where she detailed sexual encounters with Armstrong, Raiford said. The father found the diary a month earlier but his daughter convinced him it contained fantasies.

On Thursday, the father contacted the daughter and they arranged to meet at a restaurant on Jefferson Highway, Raiford said. A deputy who was also waiting for her at the restaurant saw the girl leaving ArmstrongÂ’s Jefferson Heights Apartments complex just down the street.

The girl and Armstrong were later interviewed by the deputy and both said they had consensual sexual relations since February, Raiford said.

In the girlÂ’s interview, she told deputies she had visited Armstrong at her residence on several occasions and had sex with her at least three times, an affidavit of probable cause said. The girl had sex with Armstrong the night she left home and stayed with her that night.

One sexual encounter occurred at the school, the affidavit said.
Armstrong told deputies she knew the relationship was inappropriate because it was with a student, the affidavit said. But she said the girl told her she was 17 years old.

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