Battery Creek High School Teacher charged with sexual battery of students and providing alcohol to minors. 
Following an investigation into incidents of sexual battery with two students and providing alcohol to three minors that occurred at a residence on Lady’s Island between April 9th and April 10th , Sheriff’s Office investigators met with a Beaufort County magistrate and obtained warrants for the arrest of a Battery Creek High School Teacher, 28-year-old Brittney Whetzel.
This morning, investigators located and arrested Whetzel at her Lady’s Island home on the warrants charging her with two counts of Sexual Battery with a Student and three counts of Transfer of Beer or Wine for an Underage Person’s Consumption. Following her arrest, Whetzel was transported to the Beaufort County Detention Center and incarcerated; she has yet to receive a bond hearing on the charges.
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Beaufort, SC 29902
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