38 Year-old School Teacher Arrested for Having Sex with Underage Student More than 100 times -VIDEO

Heather Winfield and thunder bay junior school where she teaches

38 year-old School Teacher Arrested for having sex with underage student more than 100 times, prosecutors claim.

Heather Winfield, 38, was arrested in January following a lengthy investigation that began back in 2016 when she was working as a teacher at Thunder Bay Junior High School in Alpena.


Her victim is reported to have been one of her students with the assaults happening at her Michigan home.

The former special education teacher has been ordered to stand trial after a three-day preliminary examination, according to the Alpena News.

The paper said Winfield, who taught at Thunder Bay Junior High, is charged with two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a child younger than 13 years old.

She also faces individual counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct during the commission of a felony, third-degree criminal sexual conduct with a child aged 13 to 15 years old and second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a child younger than 13 years old.

Her final charges include accosting a minor for immoral purposes, and using a computer to commit a crime.

On Friday, witnesses and law enforcement took to the stand, including the now 14-year-old student, the newspaper reported.

Heather Winfield could face life in prison

He testified the relationship started when he was 11, and that he and Winfield had sex more than 100 times in several hotel rooms around the town of Alpena.

The defence told Judge Thomas LaCross the case should be thrown out due to the low amount of physical evidence and the boy's lack of credibility.


To highlight that, the lawyer pointed out the teenager claimed he and Winfield also had sex with other people, and had also told police they had intercourse together "maybe 1,000 times" but later changed it 100.

The alleged victim testified that he was placed in Winfield’s special education class and the teacher took him on trips and to a football game before showering him with gifts like bikes, fishing gear, a guitar and amp, and expensive tennis shoes.

If convicted, Winfield could face life in prison, the paper says.

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