TEACHER’S SEX WITH BOY, 16, 12 TIMES IN CLASS

A FORMER teacher had sex 12 times with a 16-year-old student in her classroom.

April Novak, 32, was originally charged with 12 counts of sexual assault of a student by school staff and admitted three of them when she appeared in court.

As part of a plea agreement, prosecutors dismissed the remaining counts, although they will be read in at sentencing in June.

Novak, from the US state of Wisconsin, told investigators she and the boy “had very strong feelings CAUGHT KISSING: Novak for each other” that led to sexual encounters several times in her classroom – starting in October 2015 until December that year, when another teacher reported seeing the two kissing.

The boy told investigators that the two had agreed not to tell anyone about their sexual relationship.

Novak claimed she was helping the boy with his studies and that their relationship quickly became closer until they were regularly having sex, while clothed, on a couch in her classroom.

She was on birth control and the boy used a condom that he would discard in a styrofoam coffee cup.

Novak said her husband knew that she was helping the boy with rides and food.

But he eventually grew suspicious that more was involved. The couple have since divorced.

Novak told a detective she thought of taking her life by driving into a railroad bridge with her two young sons in the car.

She also admitted she still had strong feelings for the boy but was “willing to get help and get my life straightened out”.

After her interrogation, Novak was committed for a mental review.