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Brooklyn Teacher Who Allegedly Slept with Student Arrested on Rape Charge

Erin Sayar, an English teacher at James Madison High School, is accused of sleeping with her 16-year-old student.
Erin Sayar, an English teacher at James Madison High School, is accused of sleeping with her 16-year-old student.
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BROOKLYN — Erin Sayar, the married 35-year-old teacher who allegedly carried on an affair with a 16-year-old high school student in 2011, was arrested Thursday, authorities said.

Sayar, a teacher at James Madison High School, was charged with rape, a criminal sex act, sexual misconduct, and sexual abuse, police said.

Sayar, of Park Slope, is accused of having sex at least eight times with an 11th-grader she tutored at the high school, according to a report by the office of Special Commissioner of Investigation Richard J. Condon, which investigated the alleged affair.

She and the student, Kevin Eng, allegedly exchanged 3,856 text messages in one month.

The two allegedly slept together in her SUV and in her office at James Madison High School where Sayar would also give the student pot from a stock she kept in her filing cabinet.