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Calif. teacher Nadia Diaz accused of having sex with student

Calif. teacher Nadia Diaz accused of sex with student
Nadia Diaz CBS/Fresno County Jail

(CBS/AP) FRESNO, Calif. - Authorities say Fresno high school teacher Nadia Christine Diaz has been arrested for allegedly having sex with a 14-year-old student in 2009.

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The Fresno Bee newspaper reports that 26-year-old Nadia Christine Diaz was arrested Thursday on charges of sex with a minor and oral copulation.

Diaz had been working full-time as a social science teacher at Fresno's Washington Union High School.

Fresno County Sheriff's officials say Diaz and the teenager had sexual relations twice off campus in January and February 2009 when she was working as a substitute teacher at the school.

The student was 14 at the time.

Diaz is out on bail. She has been placed on administrative leave at the school.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Fresno County Sheriff's Office at 559-488-3111 or 559-488-3475.

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