Police: Teacher, Teen Had Relationship

New evidence suggests a Fairfax County school teacher who was arrested in the company of a 15-year-old boy over the weekend was having a sexual relationship with the teen.

According to a search warrant affidavit, police found text messages suggesting the two were meeting for sex.

Valerie Roesler, 27, of Alexandria, was arrested early Sunday morning and charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Police found Roesler and the 15-year-old boy sitting in a car on Gunston Hill Lane in the Lorton section of the county. They say the teen had slipped out of his parents' home without their knowledge.

According to sources familiar with the investigation, the two have known each other for quite some time. Sources say they met at the school where Valerie Roesler worked before taking the job in Fairfax, and that Roesler was the teen's teacher.

According to a search warrant affidavit:

"(The investigating officer) was able to learn from the minor that during the past several months, the adult female and the minor have been involved in a 'more intimate relationship.'"

No one answered the door at Roesler’s Alexandria town house on Tuesday. The few neighbors home at the time said they had heard the story ,but didn’t know Roesler.

"I think its just wrong for older people, especially teachers that definitely have the trust of the kids, to take advantage of that and just do what they want, I guess," said neighbor Alex Uyoo.

Valerie Roesler had just started working at Hayfield Secondary School when she was arrested. A spokesperson for the school system says Roesler had passed a background check and had been hired as a special education teacher. She resigned Tuesday.

FOX 5 has learned that Roesler was a coach for the boys junior varsity soccer team at Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax last year.