Originally Posted - February 26, 2006


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Teacher Charged With Sexual Abuse of 11-Year-Old

LAURENS, SC---Yet another person charged with the public trust has been arrested for allegedly violating that trust. A South Carolina elementary teacher is being held on $100,000 bond on charges that she had sex with her 11-year-old male student.

Wendie A. Schweikert, 36, resigned Friday from her position as a fifth grade teacher at E.B. Morse Elementary School.

Schweikert was arrested Friday and charged with two counts of criminal sexual conduct with a minor after the mother of the boy told police Thursday that the teacher had had sex with her son at school on at least two occasions

. She had been employed with the school district for nine years. She has no previous arrests and no previous complaints against her have been filed. 2-26-06

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