Female biology teacher, 23, is charged with rape and sodomy ‘after having sex with a 15-year-old male student multiple times during the summer break’
Kendall Burk, from Kentucky, was arrested on Wednesday on four counts each of sodomy and rape
Burk, 23, a teacher at Grant County High School, is accused of having sex four times with a student over the summer break
She was arrested after another student alerted school officials
Burk allegedly has admitted having multiple sexual encounters with the teenage victim off campus
Burk has taught biology at the school for just over a year
She faces 8 to 40 years in prison, if convicted
Kentucky high school teacher Kendall Burk, 23 [seen in her mugshot], was arrested on Wednesday on four counts each of sodomy and rape
23-year-old Kendall Burk, a biology teacher at Grant County High School, was arrested on Wednesday, and charged with four counts of sodomy and four counts of rape.
Under Kentucky law, sodomy is defined, in part, as deviate sexual intercourse with another person, which covers ‘any act of sexual gratification involving the sex organs of one person and the mouth of anus of another.’
Kendall Burk is accused of having sex with a 15-year-old student at Grant County High School [photo], four times over the summer break off campus. Burk graduated from the University of Kentucky in 2018 and has taught at the school for just over a year
Burk was arrested after another student at the school alerted administrators about the allegations against her involving a teen student
Grant County schools sent this letter to parents after one of its teachers, Kendall Burk, 23, was charged with having sex with one of her 15-year-old male student 4 times over the summer.
Burk has been fired from Grant County HS
According to the county sheriff’s office, Burk had multiple sexual encounters with the teenage victim over the summer break off campus.
Administrators at the high school learned of the allegations against Burk from a student on Wednesday and alerted the school resource officer, who then contacted the sheriff’s department, reported Local12.
The Grant County Sheriff Brian Mains said Burk admitted to having sex with the 15-year-old boy twice at her parents’ home where she lived in Dry Ridge and two more times in her car.
A spokesperson for the Grant County Schools district sent a letter to parents on Thursday confirming Burk’s arrest and saying that she has been ‘removed from duties.’
‘While these events, of course, sadden us, our first priority – and that of the law enforcement with whom we work – is and must always be the protection and safety of our students,’ Morgan continued.
Rape and sodomy in the third degree are both class D felonies punishable in Kentucky by one to five years in prison. If convicted on all counts and sentenced to serve consecutively, Burk faces 8 to 40 years in prison.
Burk was ordered held in the county jail on $50,000 bond. She is due back in court on Monday. Her LinkedIn page indicates that Burk graduated from the University of Kentucky in 2018 and has taught at the high school for just over a year.
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