Kandace Marie ChristopherA Scottsboro City Schools teacher in Jackson County, Ala., has been arrested on suspicion of having sexual relations with a female student over the past three months.
Scottsboro Police Department investigators say Kandace Marie Christopher, 26, of Fort Payne, was arrested Monday on a charge of being a school employee engaging in a sex act or deviant sexual intercourse with a student under the age of 19 and another charge of a school employee having sexual contact with a student under 19, according to a news release from the police department. The investigation is headed by Scottsboro Police Detective Lt. Erik Dohring.
Christopher is the second Chattanooga-area teacher arrested in as many weeks on suspicion of having sex with a student.
Last week, the Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office arrested Elizabeth Scroggs, 32, of Ringgold. Scroggs was a teacher at Coahulla Creek High School, and is accused of having sex with an 18-year-old student.
Christopher, meanwhile, is free on a $16,000 bond; no court date has been set.