Pensacola teacher charged with having sex with student

PENSACOLA, Fla. - A 32-year-old high school math teacher turned herself into Escambia County sheriff&#39;s deputies Monday after she was accused of having sex with a 15-year-old former student. <br> <br> Melissa Daw, who teaches at Tate High School, was charged with lewd and lascivious acts, interfering with child custody and failure to report suspected or known child abuse. <br> <br> Sheriff&#39;s spokeswoman Rhonda Ray said deputies, acting on a tip, went to Daw&#39;s house on Jan. 6 and found the boy there. In a Jan. 29 interview, he told investigators he and Daw had consensual sex, Ray said. <br> <br> Daw told her principal she was accused of a similar action at her last job in Mobile County, Ala., Doug Garber, Escambia&#39;s personnel director, told WEAR-TV. <br> <br> She resigned from her Alabama job last May and was hired by Escambia a short time later. She passed the school district&#39;s background check, Garber said. She has no record of arrest in Mobile County. <br> <br> &#34;We had nothing to indicate this on her records, application or anything of that nature,&#34; Garber said. <br> <br> She has been suspended with pay pending a review by the county school board. <br> <br> Daw, who was released on $15,000 bond, does not have a listed phone number and could not be reached for comment Monday. She denied the accusations when questioned by investigators. <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>