Teacher Caught with Teen Faces Charges

Police in Virginia say a 27-year-old Fairfax County school teacher is facing charges after she was caught in a car with a 15-year-old boy early Sunday morning.

Investigators say Valerie Roesler of Alexandria is charged with being drunk in public and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. According to Franconia Police, an officer saw Roesler and the 15 year old in a 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer parked in the 7900 block of Gunston Hill Lane just before 2 a.m. on Sunday. They say Roesler was drunk.

"That's usually not a time most people are up to something good, so he investigated," said Bud Walker of the Fairfax County Police Department. "That's when he discovered this teacher and this juvenile."

Police say the boy had left home without his parents' knowledge.

STORY UPDATE:

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.

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"The juvenile snuck out of his parents' house without their permission," said Walker. "That is a delinquent act. When that act is facilitated by an adult, that's a crime. That's what we have here."

Police say Roesler, who is a first-year special education teacher at Hayfield Secondary School, met the boy earlier this year, but he is not a student at the school where she is employed.

Roesler was arrested and taken to the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center, where she was charged.

Investigators are still trying to figure out how the two met, but for now all they know is that the two met earlier this year. They're not sure why they picked that neighborhood for their meeting early Sunday.

For some of the parents at Hayfield, it was disturbing news.

"I think it's really disappointing because in this society, we have enough going on and we really need our teachers to be examples," said Jackie Mitchell, a parent. "We need them to support our children, not engage in some type of activity like this."