A former Hamilton County Schools middle school teacher was sentenced to six months in jail plus probation after pleading guilty to child sex crimes recently.
Mark Allen Hernandez, a former history and social studies teacher at Brown Middle School, was arrested on March 6 for an inappropriate relationship with a student who was 13 at the time. The relationship allegedly took place in 2019.
Hernandez pleaded guilty the same day to sexual battery by an authority figure and 2 counts of solicitation of a minor.
Investigators say that Hernandez, 58, gave the student a cell phone with his contact information saved under the name “My Dude.” The child’s mother found the phone while on vacation and reported it to police the following day.
