Charged: Cynthia Lynn Herr, 35, is being held on $20,000 bail after allegedly having sex with a teenage boy at a Florida motel

A special education teacher has been arrested after allegedly having sex at a motel with a teenage student.

Cynthia Lynn Herr, 35, was charged on Monday with four counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor after the incident involving a 16-year-old boy last month.

Herr, who works at John D. Floyd Kindergarten in Hernando County, Florida, is being held at the local jail on $20,000 bail.

Herr picked up the boy in her car on August 24 and took him to motel in the county where they had consensual sex four times, according to the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office.

The 35-year-old was caught after she told a colleague who subsequently informed the school authorities, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

Herr is described as an exceptional student education teacher at John D. Floyd School of Environmental Science in Spring Hill.

Investigators interviewed the teenage boy who admitted that he had had sexual encounters with the teacher. It is not clear if the boy was taught by Herr.

The teacher later admitted to having sex with her student at the motel on a Saturday last month.

The Hernando County School Board was told of the teacher’s arrest. Herr does not have any prior arrests in the county.

The John D Floyd K-8 School teaches children from kindergarten up the the 8th grade.

Herr, 35, is a special education teacher at John D Floyd school in Hernando Country, Florida

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