Admits she had sex with 16-year-old

PUBLISHED: 19:34 GMT, 25 December 2015

Married reading teacher, 30, 'admits she had sex with 16-year-old male student in classroom a dozen times' and faces six years in prison

• April M. Novak, 30, of Sussex, Wisconsin was charged on Tuesday with 12 felony counts of sexual assault of a student by school staff
• Novak reportedly admitted to cops that she'd engaged in sexual relations with her 16-year-old male student in her classroom at least a dozen times
• Novak taught reading and literary at Menomonee Falls High School in Menomonee Falls
• A fellow teacher reportedly saw them embracing and reported it
• Novak's husband filed for divorce a day before she appeared in court

April M. Novak, 30, of Sussex, 

was charged with having sexual relations 

with her 16-year-old student

A married school teacher is charged with sexual assault after police say she admitted to having sexual relations with her 16-year-old male student a dozen times in her classroom.

April M. Novak, 30, of Sussex, Wisconsin, reportedly admitted to cops that she'd had intercourse and oral sex numerous times in her classroom with the student - and said that she knew the relationship was wrong but that it was mutual and the two had 'very strong feelings for each other', according to the Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel.

The boy had reportedly agreed not to tell anyone about their relationship, but on December 11 another teacher reportedly saw Novak and the boy embracing, and possibly kissing, inside her classroom and made a report.

Novak's husband filed for divorce on Monday, the day before Novak appeared in court on 12 felony counts of sexual assault of a student by school staff.

Novak (above) appeared in court on Tuesday to face 12 felony counts of sexual assault, she could spend six years in prison 

Novak taught reading at Menomonee Falls High School (above) in Wisconsin since August 2013

Novak was a reading interventionist and literacy coach at Menomonee Falls High School in Menomonee Falls.

She had reportedly worked for the school since August 2013 and had worked previously in the Brown Deer School District.

'Once I found out who it was, that's when I was like 'oh my God.' I freaked out,' said Cassie Hintz, whose 16-year-old daughter, Cali, was a student of Novak's, according to Fox 6 Now.

But Hintz praised the scandal-plagued teacher's teaching abilities: 'She was on point. She made sure my daughter was cooperative, she made sure she was doing her work, and very helpful. I can't believe this is happening.'