Overview
- Union City police arrested Alicia Hughes, 31, after responding to a reported battery that investigators say stemmed from her husband confronting her with an 18-year-old student.
- Authorities allege they then uncovered a separate sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student that involved at least five incidents.
- Hughes was booked into the Randolph County Jail on five counts of child seduction tied to the alleged contact with the minor.
- The Randolph County Sheriff's Department is separately investigating the reported battery, with police saying Hughes was the person battered during the altercation.
- Randolph Eastern School Corporation removed Hughes from all duties involving students and is cooperating with law enforcement, while police have not indicated whether charges will follow related to the 18-year-old or the husband.