Trial begins for former Bay City substitute teacher charged with having sex with students

Despite an attorney’s efforts to have his client face a trial elsewhere, the case of a former Bay City substitute teacher charged with having sex with her students is proceeding to trial in Bay County.
 Lewis – who turns 43 Wednesday — taught British Literature at Bay City Central High School from January 2010 until the end of the school year. Shortly after classes let out for summer, Lewis began having sex with three 17-year-old male students, prosecutors allege.
Police began investigating in January 2011, when a female student at Central High School told the assistant principal her boyfriend had had sex with Lewis. Police interviewed the three alleged victims, who said they had sex with Lewis on several occasions, at their homes and in Lewis’ Jeep Cherokee.
Though the age of consent for sexual intercourse in Michigan is 16, it is increased to 18 if the participants are a student and a teacher, substitute teacher or administrator of the school attended by the student.

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