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Teacher faces inappropriate texting count

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MISHAWAKA, Ind. (AP) - A northern Indiana teacher faces a criminal count for allegedly sending sexually charged text messages to a former student who now is 12.

St. Joseph County prosecutors said Monday that 30-year-old Eric West faces a misdemeanor count of inappropriate communication with a child. They say he was the girl's fifth-grade teacher at Walt Disney Elementary School in Mishawaka. She's now a seventh-grader.

The mother of the girl told investigators she found more than 250 text messages from West's cellphone. Police arrested him last week.

A message seeking comment from West was left at a residential telephone listing for a man with that name in the Mishawaka area.

A spokeswoman for Penn-Harris-Madison School Corp. tells the South Bend Tribune and WSBT-TV that West has been placed on paid administrative leave.

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