An El Paso County, Colorado schoolteacher is facing charges that she had a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old student at the school where she worked. A grand jury convened in the county indicted the woman on Nov. 16, as well as three officials at the school for allegedly failing to report the relationship was going on to authorities.

The El Paso County Sheriff's Office received a report in December 2010 that in 2007 the defendant, 32, had committed sexual assault on a student at Hilltop Baptist School, a Christian private school in Colorado Springs that was part of the Hilltop Baptist Church. The school has since closed.

It is not clear how long the relationship was supposed to have lasted. The grand jury, to which prosecutors presented evidence in February, indicted the defendant on four counts of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust in a pattern of abuse, four counts of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust and one count of obscenity promotion.

Also charged in the investigation is the defendant's uncle, the senior pastor at the church and former superintendant at the school. He is charged with failure to report child abuse and being an accessory to a crime. The defendant's father, who is associate pastor at the church and also a former school official, received similar charges, as was the former principal.

All four posted bond ranging from $300 to $25,000 and were released.

Source: The Denver Post, "El Paso County teacher, 3 others charged in alleged sex-assault case," Jordan Steffen, Nov. 18, 2011