Posted on 02/06/2008 8:28:17 AM PST by redrunner
PHOENIX - A high school basketball and volleyball coach in Goodyear has been arrested on suspicion of having a sexual relationship with one of her students, police said Tuesday.
Susan Jayne Anderson, 28, was arrested Monday night at her home in Goodyear and was being held in a Maricopa County jail on $18,000 bond, according to authorities.
Police said Anderson is accused of carrying on an ongoing sexual relationship with a 16-year-old girl she coached, police said.
"We believe that this started when the student was 15," police spokesman John Rowan told The Arizona Republic.
Anderson had coached for Goodyear's Desert Edge since 2004 and passed a background check when she was hired, according to school officials.
She also is a first-year fitness teacher at Centerra Mirage Elementary School in Goodyear.
Both districts said Anderson is on administrative leave and said there's no history of similar complaints against her.
"We believe that this started when the student was 15," said John Rowan, a police spokesman.
A probable cause statement filed Monday with the Estrella Mountain Justice Court shows Anderson told police she "chose and targeted" the victim because of the girl's low self-esteem.
According to the document:
• Police found phone records that showed the suspect and the victim were having daily, hourlong talks and had exchanged "thousands" of text messages since December. They were also communicating via the social networking Web site myspace.com
• The victim reported the suspect had taken her home after sporting events and practices, and that they had kissed up to four times on those occasions.
• The victim told police she had sexual contact with the suspect on Jan..20 at the coach's home.
GUILTY
No question about it!
Guilty.
Yes, but actually not nearly as “guilty” as I would have expected.
Eh, guilty, but she might clean up OK.
This does nothing for the stereotype of gym teachers, of course...
}:-)4
She must have read Martina Navratilova’s book on tennis, “How To Lick Your Opponent.”
She’s not just a gym teacher.
She has a sharp mind and is good with foreign languages too.
The yearbook described her as a ‘cunning linguist’.
Guilty
Yeah, it’s a pretty bad photo. I hate getting arrested too. I call her Not Guilty.
That looks more like a 16 yo student than a 28 yo gym teacher....
I thought that was an Irish airline..
If you scrub her up good, wash that nasty hair and put some makeup on her she might move into the reasonable doubt category.
A master of many tongues.
She will not however be easing gently from her Austin to her Bentley.
A female high school coach who is lesbian? What a shocker!
Next thing we’ll hear is that there are lesbians in the LPGA and the WNBA.
Muffy.
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