An Oolagah-Talala High School English teacher suspended earlier this year amid allegations of "inappropriate contact" with a student has been indicted by the Oklahoma Multicounty Grand Jury for second degree rape.

According to reports, Kathryn Michelle Wilmott, 29, a married mother of two children, "communicated frequently" with a student via Snapchat using her phone, his phone, and other students' phones. Various reports give the student's age as either 17 or 18 years old.

The indictment says that Wilmott and the student, who was in her class during the spring 2016 semester, engaged in sexual intercourse at an Owasso home sometime between December 24, 2015, and January 8, 2016.

The former teacher surrendered and was booked and immediately released on $10,000 bond. She pleaded not guilty, and through her attorney, maintains she is innocent of the charges.

Her lawyer released the following statement: "Through counsel, Ms. Wilmott emphatically denies the allegation contained in the indictment that's been filed in Rogers County. We are looking froward to clearing her good name."

In Oklahoma, the age of consent is 16; under federal law, a minor is someone under the age of 18. By either of these classifications, a 17 or 18 year old person is typically old enough to consent to sexual intercourse. However, under state law, a person does not have the ability to provide legal consent to certain individuals in a position of authority. This can apply to law officers and a person under arrest or in custody; to Corrections employees and inmates; to DHS workers or foster parents and minors in DHS custody; and, perhaps most commonly, to teachers and students.

According to 21 O.S. § 1111 and 1114, sexual intercourse is an act of second degree rape "[w]here the victim is at least sixteen (16) years of age and is less than twenty (20) years of age and is a student, or under the legal custody or supervision of any public or private elementary or secondary school, junior high or high school, or public vocational school, and engages in sexual intercourse with a person who is eighteen (18) years of age or older and is an employee of the same school system."

Second degree rape is a felony sex crime. The potential sentence for a second degree rape conviction is one to 15 years in prison. Additionally, anyone convicted of second degree rape (statutory rape) in Oklahoma must register for life as a sex offender.