Bridgett Szychulski, a well-liked high school band director in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, is charged with having sex with a 14-year-old student in 2012.
She taught at Lenape Middle School in Doylestown, Pa., at the time.
Szychulski, 31, is married with a four-year-old son and pregnant.
Her hands cuffed in front of her expanding belly in court, she was arraigned on charges of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse earlier this week.
She also faces criminal counts of statutory sexual assault, aggravated indecent assault and indecent assault, and has been suspended without pay.
Szychulski was released on $500,000 bail pending trial.
Authorities launched an investigation into her conduct earlier this month after someone made an anonymous call to the state child abuse hotline.
In a recent interview at the Bucks County Children's Advocacy Center in Jamison, Pa., a student said he had had a "sexual relationship" with his band teacher.
The student said they first "connected on a mental level" while he "played in the bands she supervised," and that he would "text and talk to Szychulski."
He told authorities that some of the communication via cellphone included explicit pictures of Szychulski, and that he relationship later became sexual.
The student said that Szychulski had sexual encounters at least three times in early 2012 until the end of the 2012 school year, according to the complaint.
The student told authorities that one sexual encounter took place in her parked car in New Britain, when he "snuck out" of his house without his parents' knowledge.
He said the two engaged in sexual contact and had intercourse in the car, while the two other encounters took place in a storage room at school and in her office.
When the student texted Szychulski in July 2014 and told her that he had disclosed their relationship to one of his friends, she replied with great concern.
She said: "Why would you tell him ... I could lose my job… family… etc ... don't know that I want to rehash that ... move on," according to the complaint.
Assistant District Attorney Matthew Lannetti said he could not comment on specifics of the case, given that this is an active, ongoing investigation.
Brianne Altice, an English teacher at a reputable Utah high school, was arrested for having sex with at least one of her students.
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