Baseball coach and teacher accused of sex with 17-year-old student

Writer: Paul Dolan
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Erik Manning mug shot. CREDIT: LEE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE

A former teacher turned himself in to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office after being wanted for having sex with a student.

According to the Lee County County Clerk of Courts records, Erik Manning, 30, had a warrant out for having a sexual relationship in 2019 and 2020 with a 17-year-old female student at Lehigh Senior High.

Manning was a baseball coach and teacher at the school when the alleged sexual relationship was taking place.

Manning turned himself in to LCSO on Nov. 1, and now faces a Second-Degree felony.

Manning, after turning himself in, has bonded out of jail.

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