Meta Lovely, a 54-year-old teacher in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is under arrest due to allegations that she had sexual relations with an underaged student. Local authorities say that Lovely was arrested on Wednesday, May 23.
According to AL.com, the police department’s Juvenile Division was alerted on May 2 about the possible improper relationship between Lovely, a substitute at Tuscaloosa City Schools, and an unidentified student. During the investigation, it was determined that Lovely was involved in a sexual relationship with the underage student.
Following their investigation, police obtained a warrant for Lovely on Wednesday, which charges her with the crime of engaging in a sexual act with a student under the age of 19. Lovely later turned herself into authorities and was booked into the county jail on $30,000 bond.
via AL.com:
Tuscaloosa police on Wednesday announced the arrest of Meta Lovely. She lives in Duncanville.
Lt. Teena Richardson said the police department’s Juvenile Division was alerted May 2 to a possible improper relationship between a Tuscaloosa City Schools substitute teacher and a student. During the investigation, it was determined that Lovely, a substitute teacher, was involved in a sexual relationship with a student of the Tuscaloosa City Schools System.
Lovely is not an employee of TCS, but she is an employee of Kelly Educational Staffing — which has a contract with the system to provide substitute teachers. Because she is contracted through a third party she still falls under the umbrella of the charge, police said.
Lovely is just the latest teacher to be charged for an alleged relationship with a teenager student. Over the course of just a few months, educators across the country were arrested for entering into an inappropriate relationship with their students, Tennessee teacher Janet Smothers, LaToya Parker, Florida teacher Caroline Lawson, 26-year-old Allyson Moran and Katherine Ross Ridenhour were all arrested on similar charges.
The list goes on to include 22-year-old Oklahoma science teacher Hunter Day, 28-year-old teacher Megan Kotarski, 23-year-old history teacher Michelle Schiffer, 29-year-old Alyssia Marie Reddy, special education teacher Jordan Ondish and 28-year-old Samantha Fitzpatrick have all been allegedly carrying on inappropriate relationships with their students.
In addition, 31-year-old Nicole Marie Andrews, 32-year-old Jessica Langford, 29-year-old Andrea Baber, 27-year-old Robin Dunlap, 27-year-old Jennifer Olajire-Aro have also been charged with these charges.
42-year-old Heather Butts of California was arrested on a second-degree felony charge, Nancy Leigh Ann Brann, a former Christian school teacher, was arrested for having sex with a student, Coine Audiat pleaded no contest to having sex with a minor in 2016 and 23-year-old Darci Lake was arrested for an inappropriate relationship. 27-year-old Brittany Zamora from Arizona was arrested on similar charges. Keri Hoffman, 35, was also arrested for an alleged relationship with a student. More recently, 29-year-old Tiffany Ranweiler-Oblander and 33-year-old Maren Oates were arrested on similar charges.
