A traffic stop by sheriff’s deputies led to the discovery of what investigators say was a school worker engaged in a sexual relationship with a teen student.

The now former Alabama school worker was pulled over just before midnight Saturday by deputies with the Madison County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies identified the driver as Makayla Ann Anderton, 26.

Investigators said they became suspicious when they realized she was driving with a 15-year-old child who was not a relative of hers.

After an investigation, deputies charged Anderton with a number of sex crimes for her acts with the child over the last two months.

Investigators said the pair began talking with one another and eventually led to exchanging explicit text messages, photographs and videos.

She was charge with:

School Employee Distributing Obscene Material to a Student

2nd-degree Statutory Rape

2nd-degree Sodomy

School Employee Engaged in a Sex Act or Deviant Sexual Intercourse with a Student Under the Age of 19 Years

Madison County School System issued the following statement: