Teacher’s cop husband files for divorce after she ‘had sex with teen student’
Two days after Lydnsey Bates's arrest, her police officer husband filed for a divorce, citing 'incompatibility' as the reason.
A teacher’s husband asked for divorce days after she was arrested for allegedly having sex one of her students.
Special education teacher Lyndsey Bates, 22, was taken into police custody earlier this year in Madison County, Alabama. On Friday, she was indicted on a felony charge of engaging in a sex act with a student younger than 19.
Bates, a former teacher at Madison County High School, is accused of having sex with 17-year-old student. She is also accused of sending explicit photos to another teen student.
She has additionally been charged with three counts of distributing obscene material to a student.
Two days after Bates’s arrest, her police officer husband, Andrew Bates, filed for a divorce, citing ‘incompatibility’ as the reason. They separated on March 29 – which is the same day Lyndsey Bates resigned from her teaching job, AL.com reported.
On her resignation, Lyndsey wrote that she was leaving her job to seek ‘a different area of education.’
Lyndsey Bates was the daughter-in-law of the chief deputy for the Madison County Sheriff’s office, Stacy Bates.
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The sheriff’s office said Lyndsey’s relationship with the Bates family ‘in no way has affected the investigative process or urgency leading to (the) arrest, nor to the future criminal justice proceedings.’
Sheriff Kevin Turner said that Stacy Bates was ‘never involved’ in the investigation.
Although the age of consent in Alabama is 16, a law prohibits any school employees from having sex with students under 19.
Teacher's cop husband files for divorce after she 'had sex with teen student'
If convicted of having sexual contact with a student under 19, Lyndsey Bates faces up to 20 years in prison and a lifetime on the sex offender registry.
She is currently out on bail awaiting her trial, which is scheduled for February 2020.