GRAND RIDGE -- An eighth-grade teacher in Jackson County was arrested Thursday following an investigation into a sexual relationship with a former student.
Arrested after school and charged with a single count of lewd and lascivious battery upon a minor child between the ages of 12 and 16 was Patrick Kyle McDaniel, 32, a teacher at the Grand Ridge Middle School.
According to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office, officials received information from the Jackson County School Board concerning the allegations. The investigation revealed that sexual contact began occurring in July. The victim was McDaniel’s former student at Grand Ridge Middle School; however, the allegations of sexual misconduct did not appear to have occurred during the time the victim was a student of McDaniel’s, JCSO said.