A high school teacher from Vancouver Public Schools was arrested Friday on allegations that he had sexual contact with a 16-year-old student in 2013, police said.
Shadbreon Gatson, 43, is a teacher at Hudson's Bay High School.
He was arrested on one charge of sexual misconduct with a minor, about three weeks after the alleged victim -- now an adult -- reported the alleged abuse to her former school, Vancouver Police Department spokesperson Kathy McNicholas said.
The school district put Gatson on administrative leave as it "cooperated with a law enforcement investigation into claims of inappropriate behavior," Principal Val Seeley and the district Superintendent Jeff Snell said in a joint email to the Hudson's Bay community, according to a copy of the letter provided by a district spokesperson.
McNicholas said the police department has no reports from the time of the alleged sexual misconduct, but that it is reviewing documentation from the high school that indicates a janitor may have walked in on the teacher and the student during an episode of the abuse.
McNicholas asked that any other victims or witnesses to abuse contact the police department.