On Tuesday, Kentucky State Police arrested a Hartford woman, who was completing her student teaching requirements at Muhlenberg County High School West Campus, for having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a student.
Police received a complaint alleging that 24-year-old Sarah McVey Wood was having an inappropriate relationship with one of her students. After an investigation, it was determined that Wood had sexual relations with a 17-year-old male student on two occasions.
Wood was arrested and lodged in the Ohio County Detention Center on two counts of third degree rape, a felony. She has since posted bond.
Wood’s arrest continues an alarming trend among teachers of having sexual relationships with students and/or possessing child pornography.
The trend, which began in earnest in October 2016 when Muhlenberg County High School teacher Courtney Davis was arrested for having sex with a student, has resulted in seven teachers, coaches, and one principal being arrested, just in the central and south central Kentucky region over the last 12 months.
Teachers and/or coaches from LaRue County High School (one coach/teacher, and the high school principal), Bowling Green High School (one coach), Muhlenberg County High School (two teachers), Grayson County High School (one coach/teacher), and Webster County Middle School (one teacher) have been arrested.
Davis, 28, was convicted in March after pleading guilty to a felony charge of unlawful transaction with a minor, and received a four year prison sentence. She was granted shock probation after serving only a few months, and will remain on probation until June 2022.
Former LaRue County High School principal Kyle Goodlett, who also taught at Elizabethtown High School, recently received a nine year prison sentence for downloading hundreds of sexually explicit images of students from their cell phones, which he had confiscated, and then sharing and trading the images with a Russian website.
Goodlett, 37, of Elizabethtown, is awaiting sentencing on related federal charges.
By Ken Howlett, News Director
Contact Ken at ken@k105.com or 270-259-6000
