Middle school teacher charged for having sex with 18-year-old

An Alabama middle school teacher has turned herself in to law enforcement after being charged with sexual misconduct involving a male high school student.
Lawrence County Sheriff Gene Mitchell says investigators were tipped off that 27-year-old Taylor Brooks Boyles had been engaging in inappropriate sexual contact with an 18-year-old Lawrence County High School senior.
Boyes, a recently divorced math and social studies teacher at Moulton Middle School, has been charged with engaging in a sex act with a student younger than 19, a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
Boyles, of Moulton, was released from jail after posting $10,000 bail.
Superintendent Jon Bret Smith tells the Moulton Advertiser county school officials learned of the allegations against Boyles on May 18. They then notified Mitchell, who began investigating.
Smith says Boyles is on paid leave pending the investigation’s outcome.
The superintendent says the alleged sexual encounters between the middle school teacher and the high school students didn’t take place on school property.
Boyles, a 2012 graduate of the University of North Alabama, was hired as a full-time teacher in the Lawrence County School System in the 2015-2016 school year, assigned to teaching fifth-grade mathematics and social studies.
According to county court records obtained by Decatur Daily, Boyles, nee Brooks, got married in May 2015, but the couple split in January 2017.
In early February, the estranged wife filed for divorce, writing in her complaint that the marriage was 'a mistake' and that 'the love has gone out' of the couple's relationship.
The divorce was finalized on April 11, just over a month before Boyles’ arrest.