Allena Ward, Karen Robbins, Wendie Ann Schweikert, A third teacher from the same area in Columbia, South Carolina, has been charged with having sex with a young teenager - all within 1 and a half years time.
Allena Ward, Karen Robbins and Wendie Ann Schweikert have all been charged with having 'sex' with a teenager or young child.
According to authorities, 49-year-old private school teacher Karen Robbins was arrested over the weekend after police discovered she had sex with a minor, although investigators claim the minor was not one of her students.
Karen Robbins is being charged with three counts each of criminal sexual conduct with a minor and committing a lewd act on a child after having sex with a 15-year-old in her vehicle in September and November of 2005.
AP reports: Police said they began investigating after school officials turned over letters in July found at Bell Street Middle School, where Robbins worked during the 2006-2007 school year. Earlier this month, Allena Ward, also a former Bell Street Middle teacher, pleaded guilty to having sex with five teenage boys, some of them students where she taught.
Wendie Ann Schweikert, a former elementary school teacher in Laurens County, pled guilty to having sex with an 11-year-old student.
Karen Robbins has been released from jail on $90,000 bail, Allena Ward has not yet been sentenced and Wendie Ann Schweikert was sentenced to 10 years in prison in June.
source
