A note passed

between two students in a class at Whitewater Middle School last year

led authorities to believe a social studies teacher was having an inappropriate

relationship one of his students, according to prosecutors.

Further investigation

revealed that the teacher, Charles Gregory Farmer, 42, would slip notes

to the victim in the slots of her school locker, said Assistant District

Attorney Jamie Inagawa.

Farmer, who

was an eighth-grade Georgia history teacher, pled guilty Monday to one

count of enticing a child for indecent purposes. He was sentenced to one

year in a detention center followed by a nine-year probation period.

Farmer also

was ordered to surrender his teaching license and agreed not to teach

anywhere in the United States, said Assistant District Attorney Jamie

Inagawa.

In his notes

to the victim, Farmer would communicate with the student about issues

relating to class and their relationship, Inagawa confirmed. The victim

was 15 at the time the incident occurred, he added.

Phone records

subpoenaed by the state showed calls between Farmer and the student that

lasted as long as three hours, Inagawa said.

Prosecutors

dropped charges of child molestation and sexual assault as part of a plea

bargain agreement, which was approved by the victim's family, Inagawa

said.

The note which

broke the case was confiscated by a teacher at Whitewater who brought

it to the attention of an administrator, Inagawa said.

Farmer was

accused of molesting the victim at a remote area off Bernhard Road in

May of last year, according to court documents.