A married teaching assistant has been arrested for allegedly having sex with a 13-year-old boy she was tutoring after school.
Holly Polson, 35
Holly Polson, 35, is accused of having sex with the student in an empty classroom at Palmdale Middle School in California.
They had allegedly been having sex for two weeks before the boy’s parents found inappropriate texts on his cell phone and called police.
Polson, a mother of four, has been booked for four felony counts of lewd acts with a child, and is due to appear in court tomorrow.
Sergeant Brian Hudson of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department told ABC Polson was supposed to be giving the boy extra tutoring – but instead she was sleeping with him.
He said: ‘We entrust our children to teachers and school instructors and in this case that trust was violated.’
When confronted, the boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told police the relationship had started about two weeks earlier.
Officers say Polson confessed to the affair when she was arrested at her family home on Tuesday.
Sergeant Hudson said: ‘She admitted to several instances of having sexual intercourse with the victim on school grounds.’
Polson is being held in custody. Her bail is set at $100,000.
She is the 15th female teacher in the U.S. to be arrested or charged for having sex with a pupil this month alone.
