Cops: Teacher charged in sex case had tattoo of student's name

DURHAM, N.C. -- A former high school dance teacher charged with having sex with a student had a tattoo of the victim's name and initials, according to a search warrant obtained by CBS affiliate WRAL.

Michelle Smith White, 37, of Durham, N.C., was charged in July with taking indecent liberties with a student and engaging in a sex offense with a student.

Authorities said White formed a friendship with the female student in 2012, when the girl was 15, and it later evolved into a sexual relationship.

In April, the girl's parents asked White not to communicate with their daughter, but a month later, they found the two were still exchanging text messages, according to an affidavit filed by the Durham County Sheriff's Office.

Some of the texts included the word "threesome" and alluded to "the involvement of Ms. White's husband," the affidavit states.

The sheriff's office filed the affidavit while seeking permission for a search warrant for White's home.

There, police seized a laptop computer, two tablet computers, two cellphones, a video camera, several framed photos of White with the girl, a handwritten card to the girl and a binder filled with notes from White's husband to the girl, WRAL reports.

The search warrant also instructed officers to photograph White's tattoos of the name and initials of the victim, as well as the "artist rendering which would be symbolic of the juvenile."

White worked at the Charles E. Jordan High as a dance teacher from March 1997 until she resigned in April, according to Durham Public Schools officials.

The search warrant affidavit notes that White left her job while the school district was in the midst of its second investigation into her relationship with the student.