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Sex with Student Charges Against Teacher

(Valparaiso, IN) - A now-former English teacher at Chesterton High School has been accused of having a sexual relationship with a former student.

 

Dakota McCoy, 31, of Valparaiso has been charged with Child Seduction and Obstruction of Justice and has also reportedly been fired from his position in the Duneland School Corporation.

 

According to authorities, the female victim alleges she was 16 or 17 when she began having sex with McCoy, whom she accused of providing alcohol and cigarettes to students while hanging out with them. The former student claimed she and McCoy had sex as many as 50 times in his car or at his mother's house until the end of her senior year.

 

She also told police she began getting confused over right from wrong when he started giving her rides home and messaging her.

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