ATCHISON COUNTY- Charges have been dropped against a Kansas woman who had been accused of having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old Atchison student in 2012 while she was employed as a teacher with the school district.

Shelley Aversman, 35, Rushville, was due in court Wednesday morning for a preliminary hearing on a charge of unlawful sexual relations with a student

The student recanted his statement and said the relationship did not happen when he was in high school but rather when he was in college, according to the Atchison County Prosecutor’s Office