Name: Deanna Marie Robert, Salem, South Carolina Age: 43 School: Tamassee-Salem Middle/High School Position: Science teacher Victim: Boy in teens Independent Mail (7 Feb 2011): Former Oconee County teacher charged with sex crimes WSPA (7 Feb 2011): Teacher Charged with Sexual Battery with a Student WYFF 4 (7 Feb 2011): Former Teacher Faces Student Sex Charges Carolina Live (7 Feb 2011): Former SC teacher charged with sexual battery WSPA (22 Sept 2011): Former Teacher Sentenced To House Arrest For Sexual Battery Charge Independent Mail (22 Sept 2011): Former Oconee teacher sentenced to house arrest for sex with student Live 5 News (23 Sept 2011): Former SC teacher gets house arrest on sex charge WRDW (23 Sept 2011): Former SC teacher gets house arrest on sex charge Oconee County Sheriff Press Release (7 Feb 2011): Teacher Arrested February 7, 2011 Contact: Captain Travis C. Tilson(864) 718-1010ttilson@oconeelaw.com (WALHALLA, SC) On February 4, 2010, Oconee County Sheriffs Office Investigators arrested a Tamassee-Salem Middle/High School teacher as a result of an investigation that is continuing. Deanna Marie Robert, age 43, of Colony Ln in West Union, South Carolina has been charged with two counts of Sexual Battery With A Student. Robert has been released from the Oconee County Detention Center on a $15,000.00 bond. As this case remains under investigation, no further information is available at this time.###
(CBS/AP) WALHALLA, S.C. - South Carolina science teacher Deanna Marie Robert has been placed on house arrest for a year after pleading guilty to having sex with a student... the 44-year-old, who taught in Oconee County, pleaded guilty in court in Walhalla on Thursday to two counts of sexual battery with a student. Circuit Judge Cordell Maddox also placed the former science teacher at Tamassee-Salem Middle and High School on probation for five years [and] ordered Robert to avoid contact with the teen. Robert apologized in court, saying she did not start the relationship with the boy she was tutoring after school. She will not be placed on the sex offender registry because she has no previous offenses. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20111521-504083.html