JERSEY CITY (WABC) -- A New Jersey teacher was arrested last week, accused of having sex with a student.
Lauren Mitchell, 32, of Lyndhurst, is being held on 150,000 bail. She was arrested June 19.
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Mitchell teaches at the Dr. Lena Edwards Academic Charter School in Jersey City. Investigators said Mitchell, who is a married second-grade teacher, had an encounter at her home with a 15-year-old girl who attends the school.
According to the prosecutor's office, several teachers at the school saw inappropriate interactions between the victim and Mitchell on a class trip and reported them to school authorities.
She is charged with aggravated sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child. The Bergen County Prosecutor's Office Special Victims Unit investigated.