Karen Robbins, 49, was arrested over the
weekend and charged with three counts each
of criminal sexual conduct with a minor and
committing a lewd act on a child.
The sex occurred with a 15-year-old in
her car and twice at her home between
September and November 2005, according to
arrest warrants.
Robbins was a private school teacher at
the time, and officials said the accusations
did not involve one of her students.
Robbins was released from jail on a
$90,000 bail.
Messages left at a telephone listing for
a Karen Robbins in Clinton and with the
county public defender's office were not
immediately returned.
Police said they began investigating
after school officials turned over letters
in July found at Bell Street Middle School,
where Robbins worked during the 2006-2007
school year.
Earlier this month, Allena Ward, also a
former Bell Street Middle teacher, pleaded
guilty to having sex with five teenage boys,
some of them students where she taught.
Wendie Ann Schweikert, a former
elementary school teacher in Laurens County,
was sentenced in June to 10 years in prison
after pleading guilty to having sex with an
11-year-old student. Ward has not yet been
sentenced.
"You're concerned as a parent. You're
concerned as a citizen and concerned as a
prosecutor that these events keep being
uncovered," said solicitor Jerry Peace, who
prosecuted Ward and Schweikert.
The now-17-year-old boy in Robbins' case,
a former student at Bell Street Middle, is
cooperating with authorities, Peace said.
