A North Carolina teacher was arrested and charged with sexual assault, after an investigation reportedly revealed sexual relationships with at least three of her male students.
Erin McAuliffe, a 25-year-old teacher at Rocky Mount Prep, has been under investigation since May 5, when local police were informed by administrators at the school of possible inappropriate conduct. Detectives spoke with numerous faculty members and students at the school, and eventually concluded McAuliffe had sexual contact with three different male students off-campus, aged 16, 17, and 17 years old respectively.
According to local news reports, McAuliffe was fired the day a police report was filed by the school's president in early May. Parents and former students at the school alike expressed their concern that someone in a position of authority was allegedly abusing that stature.
"It's very shocking and appalling that a person would do that with a student," said Dayvon Steele, a recent Rocky Mount grad. "The teacher student-relationship is very intimate in itself, but it's not meant to be abused in that sort of way."
McCauliffe was charged with three counts of sexual activity with a student, and one count of indecent liberties with a minor. The former teacher was placed in Carteret County jail on $20,000 bond on Thursday, and court records show she posted bond Friday afternoon.
Her LinkedIn page shows this was McAuliffe's first year as a teacher, having spent her previous years as a data analyst in San Diego and as a sales rep at a Chevy dealership in Rocky Mount.
