Teacher Beth Ann Chester Accused of Sending Nude Photos

High school teacher Beth Ann Chester has been charged with sexual abuse of children, statutory sexual assault and related counts after allegedly sending naked pictures of herself to her 14-year-old student.

She was a health and physical-education teacher in Moon Area School District in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, and, according to authorities, started exchanging text messages with the boy in late October. They say that the naked pictures of herself were sent on December 22, and the boy's parents discovered them four days later. The parents went to see the teacher, who resigned the next day, and is now held on a $50,000 bail in Allegheny County Jail.

There is no known evidence that Chester had physical contact with the boy.

There have been several similar incidents lately where female teachers have had sexual contact with their students.

Debra LaFave is in the news once again, after she in 2005 was found guilty of having sex with a 14-year-old boy. Her defense argued that she was "too pretty for jail" and she was sentenced to three years under house arrest and seven years of probation. The sex offender violated her own probation when she talked to a girl under 18, but what consequences this will have is not yet known.

Another case of female teacher sex offenders is Kelsey Peterson. She was a 25-year-old math and basket ball teacher at Lexington Middle School who ran away to Mexico with an 8^th grade student at her school. The boy had attended her 6^th grade math class, and they had developed a physical relationship, authorities say. Peterson was arrested and brought back to the United States.

There were letters in this case from both the boy and his teacher where the woman expressed her love to him and her forever faithfulness. The boy called her his "Baby Gurl", and according to Fox News he wrote in a letter that it was "not just about the sex but that it was pretty good."

In Crookston, Minnesota, a 38-year-old woman Kellie Ann Lundon-Cormican has been charged with four counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct. She was a special education teacher, who worked as a substitute for the Crookston school district, and authorities charge that she had sex with a 14-year-old boy at least four times from August to November. She claims to have believed that the boy was 16 years old. Her trial starts in the beginning of April.