MUSCLE SHOALS -- A Sheffield Junior High School teacher has been charged with rape and sodomy after authorities said she was caught with a Sheffield High ninth-grader.
Police detective Capt. Lanny Coan tells the TimesDaily that 38-year-old Amanda Watkins was charged on Monday and has been transferred to the Colbert County Jail.
Coan said her bail is set at $15,000.
A police officer caught Watkins and the 15-year-old student Saturday night in a car parked behind Covenant Christian School.
Coan said the two were trying to get their clothes on when the officer pulled up.
The second-degree charges are Class B felonies and are punishable by two to 20 years in prison.
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