Beth Ann Chester Nude Photos To Student Get Her Arrested

High school teacher Beth Ann Chester was charged with sending nude pictures of herself and sex-related text messages to the cell phone of a 14-year-old student.

Chester, 26, has been charged with sexual abuse of children, statutory sexual assault and related counts.

Chester was a health and phy-ed teacher at Moon Area High School in suburban Pittsburgh. According to authorities, she started exchanging text messages with a boy in late October. Police say the boy is denying having any physical contact with Chester.

The boy also told police he "felt he was in love with the teacher now," police said.

In one text message, police said, Chester called the boy "sexy" and made a graphic reference to his body.

Authorities say that the naked pictures of Chester were sent on December 22, and the boy's parents found them four days later. The parents went to see the teacher, who resigned the next day, and is now held on a $50,000 bail in Allegheny County Jail.

School district officials told police Thursday that Chester may have had in appropriate contact with a student. Chester was arrested Friday.