Sevier County, TN (WOKI) A Sevier County teacher is arrested and charged with multiple child sex crimes.

Sevier County Schools says 32-year-old Nathan McKinley Maples was placed on indefinite suspension in February pending the results of this investigation.

Administrators say they learned from a parent that Maples may have been engaged in inappropriate activity with a child.

He is charged with four counts of statutory rape by an authority figure, one count of continuous sexual abuse of a child among other charges in the eight count indictment.

Maples is being held as a pretrial felon on a $100,000 bond and is scheduled to be arraigned on May 6 at 9:00 a.m.