Trial for high school teacher who had sex with student

A former high school science teacher in Kansas is heading to trial after being accused of having a sexual relationship with a student for six months.

Gabrielle Bauman, 24, was accused of having sexual relations with one of her students between November 2016 and May 2017.

According to WIBW, she resigned in July after teaching anatomy and biology at Hiawatha High School for just one year.

Bauman has been charged with one count of unlawful sexual relations (Pictured, left, Bauman with former science teacher Chris Vitt)

Bauman was a student teacher for one semester and then was hired by the district as an instructor for the 2016-2017 school year, reported Hiawatha World Online. The school board accepted her resignation at the regular July board meeting.

Bauman was arrested on August 29 on charges of one count of unlawful sexual relations, a level 5 person felony. 

The arrest occurred allegedly after a report was made to Hiawatha USD 415 Board of Education administration in mid-June 2017.

The school board accepted Bauman’s (pictured, center, in green) resignation at the regular July board meeting. She was arrested on August 29

Bauman taught anatomy and biology at Hiawatha High School (pictured), in Hiawatha, Kansas, for one year

According to the complaint, the alleged victim was a ‘person 16 years or older who was a student enrolled at Hiawatha High School where the offender was employed’.

Police ‘investigation included the execution of a search warrant and forensic review of several electronic devices by the Hiawatha Police Department’s Digital Forensics Unit and the Heart of America Regional Computer Forensic Lab in Kansas City,’ Brown Country Attorney Kevin Hill said in a statement.

Bauman waved her right to a preliminary hearing on Wednesday. She was then bound over for trial at Brown County District Court.

Hill says an arraignment hearing has been set for November 27. Bauman is currently free on $5,000 bond.