with a student who graduated in 2013. By February 29, Nelson had been arrested, charged with having an inappropriate relationship with a male student under the age of 19 during the spring of 2013. Court documents posted subsequently stated the Nelson admitted to the affair when interviewed by sheriff's deputies. Charges against Nelson were dropped on September 25, 2017 and the case dismissed. The Tuscaloosa District Attorney's office stated that the alleged victim declined to testify in the case. Brad Petrey In July 2015, then TCSS Superintendent Elizabeth Swinford announced that a Brookwood High School employee was banned from the school while administrators investigated an alleged "inappropriate" relationship with a student. Swinford noted that she had received "various email and text messages containing a link to a photo album" containing explicit photographs documenting the relationship between Joseph Bradley "Brad" Petrey, a social studies teacher and assistant football coach, and an unnamed student (subsequently identified in a lawsuit as Abigail Weissenbach) and that the matter had been referred to the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Office. Petrey was arrested on August 4, 2015, and booked in the Tuscaloosa County Jail on one charge of "school employee engaging in a sex act or deviant sexual intercourse with a student under the age of 19 years." TCSO investigator Sgt. Kenny Shipman said that the investigation "centered on compromising photographs that were leaked anonymously over the internet portraying the two in a sexual relationship while she was still a student and he a teacher." In fact, the photographs, including several of a humorous nature, have spawned at least one notable internet meme and were mainstays of the 4chan culture for some time. Charges against Petrey were dropped on February 6, 2017, after prosecutors stated that Weissenbach had left Alabama and refused to cooperate as a witness. Later that year, Weissenbach filed a Title IX lawsuit against the TCSS in federal court, alleging that school officials were aware of Petrey's actions and did nothing to protect her from him. In an interview related to the case, Weissenbach claimed that the relationship with Petrey began during her junior year, when she "was going through a hard time and it was really nice to feel like I had someone who was in my corner that really really cared.” She said that he was a friend and mentor, at first. “He kind of coached me in Christianity and talked to