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Sumner Co. teacher charged with statutory rape

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Darryl Keen Darryl Keen
GALLATIN, TN (WSMV) -

A Sumner County teacher was arrested Wednesday morning on a charge of statutory rape.

Darryl Keen, 32, was suspended without pay from his position as a math teacher at Beech High School pending the outcome of the police investigation.

Sumner County Schools officials would not comment on the case, but Sumner County Sheriff Sonny Weatherford said the investigation involves a student at the school.

"It's a student there at Beech High School, a young 17 year old girl that he had been talking with," Weatherford said. "He talked her into meeting him in Hendersonville at a Holiday Inn in December."

According to the police report, Keen admits to getting a hotel room in Hendersonville and staying there with the 17-year-old student and her friend, but Keen denies any sexual contact.

Keen was jailed on $150,000 bond.

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