A Nebraska high school substitute teacher was caught in a compromising position with a teenage student in the back seat of her car, and the boy fled.
Erin Ward, 45, a former teacher at Omaha’s Burke High School, said she and a 17-year-old student “undressed” a Honda Pilot parked on a dead-end street around 3 a.m. Saturday. was discovered by the authorities. daily mail report.
Douglas County Sheriff’s Deputies were responding to a report of a suspicious vehicle when they saw two people hurriedly changing their clothes, then getting into the driver’s seat and fleeing the scene, driving just two blocks away. They collided at a distance.
The boy got out of the car, later identified as belonging to Ward and her husband, and fled on foot. After more than an hour of searching, police found the man wearing only boxers, a T-shirt and socks.
Ward remained at the scene and allegedly admitted to having a sexual relationship with the teenage boy, who was a student at Burke College.
Police said after the student was found, he was taken to a “secure location for treatment and questioning.”
In November, Ward shared on her X account that Burke was “the best school to be a guest school teacher.”
“My favorite building to teach in…I love being a Bulldog,” she wrote alongside a photo of the school’s lanyard.
Every school in the metro can learn something from it @OPS_Burke @drasmussen43 It’s really the best school to be a guest teacher at. Favorite building to teach…I love being a bulldog 🖤💛 pic.twitter.com/MU8qiWgncU
— Erine Ward (@ErineWard1212) November 3, 2023
Ward has since been charged with felony sexual abuse by a school employee, a Class 2A felony punishable by 20 years in prison.
