High School Teacher Arrested for Sending Sexually Explicit Messages to Girls, 15 & 16 - Steven Maffucci

It's a new school year, but the teachers remain as hot for the students as ever. Case in point: a Florida high school teacher who got a little too close to some of his students--allegedly. Here's more from WPTV:

The billboard outside the Treasure Coast High School still says "Welcome back Titans," but parents were shocked to learn one of the teachers here, 30 year old Steven Maffucci is behind bars, accused of sending inappropriate computer messages to female students.

Parent Cindy Ullmann says, "You're supposed to drop off your kids in the morning feeling they're safe and they're getting the education, and here you have someone doing what's very wrong."

School board officials say they found out about the allegations Tuesday afternoon, and acted to remove Maffucci from the classroom.

Spokesperson Janice Karst says, "Anytime there's that serious of an allegation from a student, the school district did move very quickly cooperated fully with law enforcement."

Police reports show Maffucci sent explicit MySpace and and text messages to the girls, between the ages of fifteen and sixteen years old. Even before the criminal charges were filed, the school board had decided to terminate Maffucci.