Crime & Safety

Anne Arundel Teacher Charged with 'Sexting' with Student

Police say a Broadneck High School teacher was arrested on a charge of displaying obscene material to a minor and felony solicitation of child pornography.

Anne Arundel County police reported Tuesday that an English teacher at Broadneck High School was charged with exchanging sexually explicit text messages and images with a student. 

Erin Nicole Thorne, 28, of the 700 block of Rusack Court in Arnold, was charged with displaying obscene material to a minor and felony solicitation of child pornography. A statement from police said the minor involved graduated from the school in 2011, and is now an adult.

Authorities said that when the minor was a senior at the school, he and Thorne exchanged text messages and images, and after the student was an adult, became engaged in sexual activity.

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