Sex Offender Kristyn Nicole Breeds

 An Anne Arundel County high school teacher has confessed to having sex with a 17-year-old student on multiple occasions, according to police and charging documents. Breeds, in an interview with a county police detective, "admitted to the sexual relationship," according to the charging documents. Breeds, of the 200 block of Kathleen Ave. in Severna Park, was arrested Thursday, Fredericks said.

The charging documents said she told police that she and the 17-year old had sex at the park and ride lot on Leelyn Drive in Severna Park, at her Severna Park home and at Queenstown Park. "She advised the sexual relationship started in the spring of 2009 and continued until December 2009," the charging documents state.

At a brief bail review hearing, Annapolis District Judge Thomas J. Pryal ordered Breeds, who was initially held on $500,000 bail, released on her own recognizance. Assistant State's Attorney Laura Caspar said, "She has harmed this 17-year-old in a manner he may not be able to recover from."

A monitor showed Breeds crying and sniffling in the jail as she told Pryal she was not a danger to herself or anyone else and asked to be released on recognizance. Her parents and family in the courtroom voiced support for her, and a brother called out, "I Love you." I'm here to support her in whatever she needs to have happen," a man who identified himself as her father, Gary Breeds, told Pryal.

The maximum jail sentence for each count is one year.

At a news conference Friday at school headquarters in Annapolis, Superintendent Kevin M. Maxwell said Breeds, who has worked at the school since 2006, was suspended from her job Thursday.

"We find this unacceptable," said Maxwell, adding that he is "absolutely more than outraged." "We're not happy at all that this is where we are."

A parent of a student at the school first informed Northeast's principal, Kathy Kubic, on the afternoon of Dec. 18 after overhearing comments about an alleged relationship between Breeds and the student. The Baltimore Sun does not name alleged victims of sex crimes.