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Auburndale Woman Arrested In Teacher-Student Sex Case

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The media surrounds Danielle Jones as deputies escort her to a patrol car.

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By MIKE WELLS | The Tampa Tribune

Published: June 5, 2008

Updated: 06/05/2008 12:56 pm

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Danielle Jones

BARTOW – A sixth-grade middle school teacher from Auburndale is facing charges after the Polk County sheriff said she had sex with four teenage boys.

Danielle Jones, 32, had been the teacher of two of the boys at Stambaugh Middle School during the 2005-06 school year, Sheriff Grady Judd said during a news conference early this afternoon. Jones contacted the two boys during the summer of 2007 through their MySpace accounts, Judd said. Jones was 31 at the time, and the two boys were 14 and 15, Judd said.

Jones told the former students she missed them and arranged to pick them up and bring them to her house, where she had sex with both of them, investigators said.

Jones had sex with one of the students again on another date and later had sex with both of the boys at her house, Judd said. On the third occasion, the boys stayed all night, investigators said.

Jones is accused of having sex with one of the boys and his cousin, who was 16, at her home on a fourth occasion and of having sex with the second former student and his cousin, also 16, on a fifth occasion.

The relationships were kept secret until May 16, when one of the boys told somebody at the school, Judd said. Jones was put on paid administrative leave while the allegations were investigated.

Stay with TBO.com for developments.

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