Police in Texas said Sarah Fowlkes, a 27-year-old anatomy teacher at Lockhart High School, engaged in sexual contact with a 17-year-old male student, KXAN-TV reported.

Fowlkes turned herself in after the Lockhart Police Department issued her arrest warrant Monday, the station said. And in a move some might consider unusual, Fowlkes was smiling broadly for her mug shot.

But her attorney Jason Nassour explained why: Youve got a young lady who was arrested on the statement of a 17-year-old kid with no corroborating evidence, he told KXAS-TV. This isnt a guilty person sitting there like they just got caught. When everythings fleshed out, it wont be as it appears.

Fowlkes bonded out the same day she turned herself in, KXAN said.

Investigators were notified March 10 by a school administrator of the alleged inappropriate relationship, KXAN reported, adding that police said the male student was in contact with Fowlkes in person and throughmessages.

Fowlkes who taught anatomy and physiology and environmental systems was suspended by the Lockhart Independent School District where shes worked since 2014, KXAN said.

Seventeen years old is obviously older, but at the same time it doesnt make anything right, Detective Jesse Bell told the station. If the kid is in school, parents trust the school to take care of their kids so its definitely not right that a teacher in a position of power over a student be able to take advantage of a student.

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