A former Idaho teacher accused of having sex with a student has pleaded not guilty.
The Bonner County Daily Bee reports 48-year-old Nichole Thiel of Coeur d'Alene pleaded not guilty on Monday, and now has a four-day jury trial scheduled for August. She was charged with sexual battery of a minor.
Thiel is not in jail while the case in pending.
Officials say Thiel had sex with a 16-year-old male student in 2015 while she was his culinary arts teacher at Lake Pend Oreille High School.
The teen told the court that having sex with a teacher was on his “bucket list.” Thiel invoked her right to remain silent during a preliminary hearing in Bonner County Magistrate court in March
A pretrial hearing in the case is scheduled for July.
(by Associated Press)
