5th-grade teacher faces rape charges for having sex with high school students

Michelle McCutchan, 38, faces nearly two dozen charges relating to alleged sexual affairs she had with at least two high school students.
A fifth-grade teacher facing charges for having sex with a teenage student is now accused of raping another high schooler.

Michelle McCutchan was busted last month in Checotah, Okla., on two counts of second-degree rape and one count of sodomy with a 16-year-old, authorities said.

Now, the 38-year-old faces nearly two dozen charges after it was discovered she allegedly had sex with a second student.

"She's a veteran of the school system," Tonya French, McIntosh County sheriff's office investigator, told News on 6 in Tulsa in May when McCutchan was first arrested.

"What I've heard across the board is they didn't see it coming," French said.

McCutchan, who was suspended with pay from her job in May, now faces nine counts of second-degree rape; nine counts of sodomy; two counts of providing alcohol to minors; one count of possessing child pornography and one count of child neglect.

The child neglect charge relates to her own daughter, authorities said.

McCutchan allegedly admitted to sending nude pictures of herself to one teen's cell phone, police said.

The Marshall Elementary School teacher allegedly had sex with the two Checotah High School students from December 2010 to May 2011, authorities said.