Tiffany Ranweiler-Oblander, a 29-year-old teacher at Crestwood High School, was charged after she allegedly had sex with an 18-year-old pupil for several months.
According to reports, Ranweiler-Oblander was placed on paid administrative leave April 30 and is prohibited from entering school grounds. She previously taught English and communications at Crestwood High School in Cresco, Iowa.
Fresco Sheriff Mike Minor said that the two had inappropriate relations “on numerous occasions”. Ranweiler-Oblander is being charged with sexual exploitation by a counselor or school employee.
She was placed in the Howard County Jail on a $5000 bond.
Ranweiler-Oblander is just the latest teacher to be charged for an alleged relationship with a teenager student. Over the course of just a few months, educators across the country were arrested for entering into an inappropriate relationship with their students, Tennessee teacher Janet Smothers, LaToya Parker, Florida teacher Caroline Lawson, 26-year-old Allyson Moran and Katherine Ross Ridenhour were all arrested on similar charges.
The list goes on to include 22-year-old Oklahoma science teacher Hunter Day, 28-year-old teacher Megan Kotarski, 23-year-old history teacher Michelle Schiffer, 29-year-old Alyssia Marie Reddy, special education teacher Jordan Ondish and 28-year-old Samantha Fitzpatrick have all been allegedly carrying on inappropriate relationships with their students.
In addition, 31-year-old Nicole Marie Andrews, 32-year-old Jessica Langford, 29-year-old Andrea Baber, 27-year-old Robin Dunlap, 27-year-old Jennifer Olajire-Aro have also been charged with these charges.
42-year-old Heather Butts of California was arrested on a second-degree felony charge, Nancy Leigh Ann Brann, a former Christian school teacher, was arrested for having sex with a student, Coine Audiat pleaded no contest to having sex with a minor in 2016 and 23-year-old Darci Lake was arrested for an inappropriate relationship. 27-year-old Brittany Zamora from Arizona was arrested on similar charges. Keri Hoffman, 35, was also arrested for an alleged relationship with a student.
