Teacher Accused of Sex with Student Claims He Didn’t Know It was Illegal, Planned to Elope

A Mississippi teacher facing sex crimes charges for having an inappropriate relationship with a student allegedly planned to marry the teen, the Biloxi Sun-Herald reports. James Donald Hawkins II, 38, is accused of having sex with a 17-year-old high schooler multiple times this spring, including in her car in a Walmart parking lot and at …