Montrose Christian Teacher Arrested for Sex Offenses

A Pennsylvania woman who taught at was arrested Thursday and is accused of having sex with a 16-year-old student, county police said in a news release.

Ashley Jean Campbell, 27, of the unit block of Thompson Road in Cochranville, Pa., turned herself into county police on Thursday morning, the release said. She was released after posting $250,000 bond, according to online court records.

Campbell is charged with two counts of sexual abuse of a minor and two counts of committing a fourth-degree sex offense.

Information about an attorney or court date for Campbell were not immediately available.

Montrose Christian released a statement on Thursday announcing that Campbell no longer taught at the school.

WJLA.com posted the statement from school chancellor Ken Fentress.

Campbell was listed as a kindergarten teacher on the website of the school, which teaches students in kindergarten through 12th grade, The Gazette reported. Her name had been removed from the faculty list on the site by late Thursday afternoon.

A county police spokeswoman told The Gazette that Campbell “admitted to the charges during an interview with detectives.”

Police say Campbell was involved in a sexual relationship with a male student for more than a year. Montrose Christian received an anonymous email alleging the relationship on Friday, according to the release. That same day, school officials called the Montgomery County Police Family Crimes Division, which started an investigation, the release said.

Detectives talked with the boy and learned that Campbell would drive him in her vehicle to a park in the county after school hours where they would have sex, police said. This went on between fall 2010 and last month, the release said.

This is the second time in a week that a teacher at a Rockville school has been arrested on charges of having sex with a student. Last week, who he had taught at Julius West Middle School teacher and coached at Richard Montgomery High School.