Laura Lynn Cross, 37, faces jail time after she admitted grooming and having sex with her 14-year-old pupil who fathered a child with her

A high school teacher who admitted having an underage student’s baby after spending three years grooming him is facing prison time. Prosecutors said Laura Lynn Cross a former Ohio english teacher conceived a love child with a teen student she sexually coerced and who fathered her child.
Cross, 37, of Tallmadge, Ohio admitted three counts of sexual battery and is due to be sentenced in May. The plea deal concluded the trial where she had been facing charges of having a baby with her teen pupil who she partly adopted after saying she could “mentor” him, relatives told authorities.
The former high school teacher pled guilty on Friday to charges stemming from her three-year relationship with the student that resulted in her having his child.
The affair started with the pupil making trips to her house playing in her swimming pool, and eventually to him staying the night and finally moving in and having a child.

The mother-of-two filled her Facebook page with photos of the pair

Cross was the boy’s teacher in 2012, when he was a 15-year-old freshman at Buchtel High School, the news station reports. She later convinced his mother to let her adopt him, and the boy moved into Cross’ home in August 2013.
She quit her job as a teacher in January 2015, a month after she gave birth to the boy’s child, according to WEWS.
The teenager’s dad told a local news station in Cleveland, Ohio: “They were having sex.”
The father, who does not live with his son, has made his claims in an interview with local TV.
The 37-year-old teacher and mother-of-two allegedly started ‘grooming’ the boy when she was his eighth grade English teacher at Buchtel High School in Akron, in 2012.
Cross at one point was able to convince the boy’s mother to let the boy move into her Tallmadge home as part of a court approved ‘partial parental custody’ arrangement because she was his ‘mentor’.
The teen’s father says he first raised concerns to both a Buchtel High School official and Tallmadge Police as early as 2012 when his son was a freshman–but no charges were filed.
Even more disturbing, Cross convinced the teen’s mother, the custodial parent, to allow the student to move in with her in her Tallmadge home through a court approved “partial parental custody” arrangement.

English teacher Cross partially adopted the boy after telling his mum she could mentor him

She will be sentenced May 24 by Summit County Common Pleas Judge Tammy O’Brien and could face a lengthy time behind bars.
Prosecutors revealed Cross began a three-year sexual relationship with the boy in 2014.
At the time, the teen was living with Cross, who was his legal guardian.
She gave birth to the boy’s son in December the following year.
Initially, the birth was kept secret until someone recently notified the boy’s father, asking him if he ‘knew he was a grandfather…’
She was eventually arrested and charged August 2017,after police were informed she had given birth in 2015 to the student’s child.

Laura Lynn Cross,[seen in her mug shot], has admitted three counts of battery

The English teacher resigned from Buchtel High School in 2015