SNELLVILLE, Ga. — Gwinnett County school officials tell Channel 2 Action News that school police have launched an investigation into possible criminal charges against a former teacher who admitted having a sexual affair with one of her students.
Keenon Hall, 29, resigned from her English teaching position in April after admitting a sexual affair with a 17-year-old male student.
Hall said the affair was consensual and that she was resigning for medical reasons. Last fall, her peers voted her Shiloh High School Teacher of the Year.
Channel 2 Action News reporter Tom Regan obtained copies of a statement, written by the student for investigators, describing the sexual relationship.
The student, who played on the high school football team, said Hall made an initial advance when he went to her for help with his homework last October.
"She began touching me on my leg, and then asked me when I was gonna let her molest me. I said, 'Never,' and we began to laugh. Then she asked me again, this time handing me a phone number and asked me to call her," said the student's statement.
The student said that a week later, his teacher sent a cab to pick him up and take him to a motel on Mountain Industrial Boulevard. The student's statement said, "She gave me some vodka and asked me, 'Do I enjoy drinking?' After the drink, she began feeling my man parts and we had sex."
The student said Hall later gave him money and a cell phone. He said they had sex several times, including inside a classroom at Shiloh High School. Hall denied any sex took place in the classroom.
He said their relationship continued from October to spring, but then it fell apart. "What made Keenon Hall mad was the fact I would not give her a baby," the student said. "I said, 'No, I will never,' and that night she began crying because of how mad she was. She took me home and never said anything else," he said.
School spokesperson Sloan Roach told Regan that the teen reported the affair to administrators when the English teacher lowered his final grade. "The original grade has been reinstated," said Roach.
Roach also told Regan that a search of the teacher's laptop computer turned up 14 pornographic video clips. A document reviewed by Regan indicated the titles of the explicit video clips included "Shemale Threesome."
Roach said school resource officers will cooperate with the Gwinnett County district attorney to determine if criminal charges are warranted in the case.
Hall was an employee with Gwinnett County Schools for five years.
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