Cobb 'Teacher Of The Year' Charged With Sex With Student

MARIETTA, GA — The former "Teacher of the Year" at a Cobb County high school has been arrested and charged with sexual assault for a three-year-long series of sexual encounters with a 16-year-old student.

Spencer Herron, 48, was arrested Friday at his home in Acworth after Cobb County Police served a search warrant there. The teacher at Kell High School, in Marietta, faces three counts of sexual assault.

According to police, the Crimes Against Children unit was contacted about Herron sexually assaulting a 16-year-old female student, who is now 18, on school property. Police interviewed the student on Thursday and "she was able to provide details of the activity between her and the male teacher," said police spokesman Officer S.A. O'Hara.

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The student said the contact started out as coercion and groping in 2016 and progressed to sexual activity in 2017 and this year. All of the contact happened on school property, O'Hara said.

On Friday, evidence collected at Herron's home on Northside Drive in Acworth backed up the story the student told, according to police.

The incident remains under investigation. Anyone with information regarding the case is asked to contact the Cobb County Crimes Against Children unit at 770-801-3470.

Herron is a video production teacher at Kell and was named the school's Teacher of the Year for 2016-17.

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