NC teacher accused of sexually abusing teenagers couldn’t stay away: police

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For a former North Carolina science teacher who is accused of having sex with one of her students, it seems the heart wants what the heart wants.

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Elizabeth Bailey, 37, appears to have once again let her emotions run free in the face of two dozen criminal charges linked to a sexual relationship with an underage teenager.

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According to police, Bailey was involved in a car accident outside of Statesville, North Carolina last weekend. There were two underage boys with them.

When police arrived, the teenagers separated, leaving Bailey with the bag, allegedly taped to the passenger seat. She told police she was letting the teenager drive without a license, police said.

Officers discovered that she had been ordered to stay away from the teenager as part of her bail. Bailey was arrested on charges of violating her provisional release, along with new charges of criminal offense of a minor and a misdemeanor for allowing an unlicensed driver to drive.

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Bailey was a popular science teacher at Northview Academy in the Iredell-Statesville school district when she was arrested in August 2022.

After she was arrested, she was suspended from the school board, and two months later she resigned.

Bailey has been charged with criminally raping a child under the age of 15, violating a child’s indecent liberties and committing a sexual assault on a college student.

She was given an electronic monitor and was released on $75,000 bail.

But it appears the teacher was in love, and a week after her arrest, Bailey was allegedly again involved with the boy and has been charged with sexual offenses with a child under the age of 15 and an offense of contributing to a minor’s delinquency . She received $50,000 bail.

Three weeks later, in a suspected Mary Kay Letourneau-like move, she was arrested again on 19 counts, including violating her provisional release, nine counts of misdemeanor contributing to the criminal activity of a minor, and nine counts of intimidation or disruption governance witness.

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