High School Gym Teacher Arrested Over Sexual Relationship with Student

Authorities say the relationship lasted for nearly three months.

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A former teacher at a New York City Catholic school was arrested yesterday for having sex with a male student on several occasions. 

The New York Post reports that 24-year-old Megan Mahoney had sex with the 16-year-old Moore Catholic High School student roughly 30 times between October 2013 and January 2014. Mahoney also allegedly had sex with the teen on the Staten Island high school's campus. 

According to the Post, Mahoney resigned from her post at Moore following an encounter with the teen's ex-girlfriend: 

Mahoney, who also was Moore’s assistant athletic director and an assistant girls basketball coach, resigned under fire after the teen’s ex-girlfriend spotted him and Mahoney at a pizzeria and called the cops, sources have said.

The Post reports that Mahoney's relationship with the student began after she offered to help him improve at basketball. Authorities reportedly became aware of the relationship after he bragged to his friends and word spread. The teen told the Post that he was expelled for his role in the scandal, though the Post notes that the Archdiocese of New York denies this. The fallout also caused Moore athletic director Richard Postiglione to resign.

Mahoney has been charged with statutory rape and criminal sexual act. 

[via New York Post]

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