Blairsville, GA – Forty year old Shawnetta D. Reece, former Union County Middle School (UCMS) Physical Education Teacher, has been arrested for ‘child molestation and sexual abuse by persons with supervisory or disciplinary authority’.

Shawnetta D. Reece, former UCMS phys ed teacher

The Union County Sheriff’s Office (UCSO) recently received a tip that a Union County teacher was sexually involved with a student in 2013. UCSO requested that Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) assist with an investigation. GBI was able to determine that Reece, a physical education teacher at UCMS at the time, was sexually involved with a 15 year old student in 2013. The student was moving from the eighth grade to the ninth grade at the time.

Upon completion of the GBI investigation, the case will be turned over to Jeff Langley, the Enotah Judicial Circuit District Attorney, for prosecution.

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