September 22, 2021
A teacher at a private Florida boarding school has been charged with having sex with a 17 year old student — including once in her car while at a beach, deputies said Tuesday.
Taylor J. Anderson, a 38-year-old teacher at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Manatee County surrendered late Monday after being booked on an assortment of charges, including sexual battery by custodial authority.
The student, later admitted to having sex with Anderson. The educator was not allowed back onto the school’s campus and was fired a short time afterward, deputies said.
Female educator used social media to communicate with her teen victim
A subsequent investigation revealed Anderson was communicating directly with the student via social media and text messages over several weeks. Detectives said the teacher on one occasion picked up the student at their apartment in July and went to the beach, where the pair ‘engaged in sex acts’ in Anderson’s car.
Anderson declined to speak with investigators, leading deputies to execute search warrants at her home, as well as others pertaining to her car and cellphone.
Evidence obtained during the searches, along with data from the student’s cellphone, led to an arrest warrant filed against Anderson, deputies said.
Anderson, a married mother of a five year old son, was terminated Wednesday, one day after school staffers learned of the possible sexual relationship. Nevertheless she made a brief out-of-state trip before surrendering on charges of sexual battery by custodial authority, traveling to meet a minor and transmission of harmful material to a minor, deputies said
Anderson is facing charges of sexual battery by custodial authority, traveling to meet a minor, and transmission of harmful material to a minor.
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