Florida Teacher Charged With Sex With A Minor

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Florida Teacher Charged With Sex With A Minor

Stacy Lynn Hooks. Highlands County Jail booking photo.

SEBRING, Florida – A Highlands County Public School teacher is facing nine felony county for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a teenager.

38-year-old Stacy Lynn Hooks, a math teacher at Hill-Gustat Middle School in Sebring, Florida was charged with three counts of transmission of harmful information to a child, one count of traveling to meet a child after using a computer to lure a child, and five counts of lewd and lascivious behavior against a child age 12 to 16, according to Highland County Sheriff’s records.

The state prosecution alleged during her bond hearing that Hooks had sex and oral sex with a minor and traded photographs with a teenager, NBC affiliate WFLA reported. Bond was set at $625,000.

Hill-Gustat Middle School has had several disciplinary problems with staff in recent months. The school resource officer was suspended last month for driving 100 miles per hour in a 55 mph zone which resulted in crashing and flipping the patrol car. The school’s principal was place on administrative leave in September for undisclosed reasons, reports Highlands Today.

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