Tampa teacher-student sex allegations emerge

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Wallace was moved out of the classroom at the start of this school year.

More details are surfacing about a Hillsborough County teacher accused of having a sexual relationship with a female student for more than a year.

Jaymee Wallace, 28, taught algebra and worked as the varsity girls basketball coach at Wharton High School in New Tampa. She was arrested Monday and charged with one count of lewd or lascivious battery, a third-degree felony. She was released on $7,500 bond.

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Nichole Hinkson is a parent who says she's known about the allegations since last year and even reported them.

"The coach came to my home looking for the girl," said Hinkson. "Was very upset, beating on my door, cursing and irate because she could not find the little girl. I've seen text messages that she sent to the little girl, conversations, and actually the little girl admitted to me what went on, what had happened. I called the school board, gave them information last year. No one did anything."

Police say the relationship started in January 2003 when the then 15-year-old student was in ninth grade.

Wallace is still employed by the Hillsborough County School District, however, not in the classroom, but at an office in Ybor City.

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