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The Nebraska teacher accused of sexually abusing a teenage student has been pictured looking unkempt in a new mugshot ahead of her first court appearance.
Erin Ward, 45, appeared dazed and disheveled in a mugshot released by the Douglas County Sheriff's Office three days after her arrest.
She is slated to appear in court later today to face one count of felony sexual abuse by a school employee.
The married mother of three admitted to having sex with a 17-year-old student after the pair were caught in the backseat of a car belonging to Ward and her husband - who is a higher-up with the Department of Defense.
Ward worked as a substitute teacher at several metro area schools. It was at Omaha Burke High School she met the teenage boy with whom she was found in the early-morning hours of April 13.
Erin Ward, 45, appeared dazed and disheveled in a mugshot released by the Douglas County Sheriff's Office ahead of her first court appearance
The married mother of three faces one count of felony sexual abuse by a school employee, carrying a sentence of up to 20 years in prison
Ward's 10th-grade daughter (front left) is around the same age as the boy the substitute teacher admitted to sexually abusing
Around 3 a.m., Douglas County Sheriff's deputies were called to investigate a suspicious car parked on a dead-end road.
There, they found Ward and the victim inside a Honda Pilot 'determined to be owned by Ward and her spouse,' the DSCO wrote in a press release.
The 17-year-old jumped into the driver's seat and sped off in the SUV, crashing into a yard two blocks away. He then ran away wearing only a t-shirt, boxers and socks, and was found about an hour later.
Ward was getting dressed in the back seat when deputies approached.
They recovered an Omaha Public Schools employee ID from inside the car. Ward confirmed she was a substitute teacher at Harry A. Burke High School, where the teen was enrolled, and admitted to having
