SHALIMAR, Fla. – A Florida middle school teacher was arrested after police said she had a two-year sexual relationship with a student, authorities said.
Hayley Close Hallmark, 35, was arrested Friday and charged with lewd and lascivious conduct with a student by an authority figure.
She is being held without bond in Okaloosa County Jail. The student, now 17, confided with a high school teacher about the relationship with Hallmark.
The teacher than reported it to the school resource officer on Thursday. The student told an an Okaloosa sheriff's deputy that the relationship started in August 2017 when she was in eighth grade.