Sheffield Teacher Charged In Sex Abuse Case Loses Job

An update on a teacher in Colbert County who is charged with rape and sodomy. Amanda Watkins, a teacher at Sheffield Junior High School, has been fired.

Watkins was an eighth grade teacher at the school. Muscle Shoals Police arrested her last month. Police say they caught her engaged in an inappropriate sexual relation with a ninth grade student. The student was in her class last year.


Watkins had been on paid administrative leave.