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Beech High School Teacher Charged Over Relationship With Minor

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A Sumner County teacher was charged over inappropriate relationship with a minor.

According to Sumner County Sheriff Sonny Weatherford, 52-year-old Patrick Jonathan Bruce Sr. was charged.

Bruce is a teacher at Beech High School in Hendersonville. 

He was charged with solicitation of a minor to commit aggravated exploitation of a minor, solicitation of a minor to commit sexual battery by an authoritative figure and solicitation of a minor to commit aggravated statutory rape. 

Details of the inappropriate relationship between him and the student were not released.