Holly Hatcher Statutory Rape Case

First-year teacher, Holly Hatcher, was recently arrested for statutory rape. The teacher had recently been assigned to teach at Gallatin High School. She was arrested after a joint investigation by the Sumner County Sheriff's Department, the Sumner County School Board, and the Gallatin Police. Nashville Police started the investigation after they were tipped off by the Gallatin Police Department. She was not arrested at the school and she also wasn't put on administrative leave. This all happened after she admitted to having the relationship with the 17-year-old student on six different occasions in the past two months. She was charged with three counts of statutory rape by an authority figure. She was released Thursday after paying a $6,000 bond in Davidson County and a $15,000 bond in Sumner County.

Holly Hatcher is a 25-year-old recent graduate from Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville, Tennessee. She recently taught Social Studies at Mt. Juliet High School during the 2005-2006 school year. She resigned from that school at the end of that school year. She had been hired in August 2007 by Gallatin High School as a Social Studies teacher. She was also hired on there as the new girls softball and volleyball coach. Both Wilson and Sumner County schools both agree that she had no previous record.

The student that she was convicted of raping was a 17-year-old male. Was this rape or an actual relationship between the teacher and her student? It was said that he drove to her Nashville home on all six occasions that she was charged on. Many people argue and say that most 17-year-old teenagers are having sex anyway, but the fact that she was his teacher and a few years older makes it even worse. The fact that she is an authority figure causes these charges to be a misdemeanor. Hatcher later resigned after posting bale and being released from jail.