Amy Pierce is a 30 year old teacher’s assistant at Conway Springs High School in Kansas. She’s accused of unlawful sexual relations involving a 17-year-old student and with furnishing alcohol to minors:

The charges accuse Amy D. Pierce, 30, of Conway Springs, of unlawful sexual relations, a felony, Sumner County Attorney Shawn DeJarnett said.

There is no indication the activity outlined in the charge occurred on school grounds, but the 17-year-old is a male student at the high school, DeJarnett said. Unlawful sexual relations is a lower-level felony essentially defined as a situation where a person abuses his or her authority. The sexual relations occurred this past spring semester, he said.

According to DeJarnett, Pierce also is charged with furnishing alcoholic beverages to a minor for illicit purposes, a felony. And she is charged with three misdemeanors: unlawfully hosting minors consuming alcohol or cereal malt beverages and two counts of furnishing a cereal malt beverage to a minor.

The charges, filed Monday, allege that some of the crimes occurred during a party at Pierce’s house, he said.

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She has been a special-education paraeducator at Conway Springs High since August 2004, said Larry Clark, director of special education with the cooperative. He said he couldn’t comment on her current job status.