A TEACHER who admitted having an underage student's baby after spending three years grooming him is facing prison.

Laura Lynn Cross, 37, of Tallmadge, Ohio admitted three counts of sexual battery and is due to be sentenced next month.

The affair started with the pupil making trips to her house playing in her swimming pool, and eventually to him staying the night and finally moving in and having a child.

The teenager's dad told a local news station in Cleveland, Ohio: "They were having sex."

The father, who does not live with his son, has made his claims in an interview with local TV.

Ohio.com had just reported the former high school teacher pleaded guilty on Friday to charges stemming from her three-year relationship with the student that resulted in her having his child.

She will be sentenced May 24 by Summit County Common Pleas Judge Tammy O’Brien and could face a lengthy time behind bars.

The news site said prosecutors revealed Cross began a three-year sexual relationship with the boy in 2014.

At the time, the teen was living with Cross, who was his legal guardian.

She gave birth to the boy’s son in December the following year.

The lad’s mum filed a complaint with Akron police in June 2015 about the affair.

She also contacted Summit County prosecutors and police in Tallmadge, where her son was living with Cross.

The boy's dad says he first raised concerns to both school officials and Tallmadge Police as early as 2012 when his son was a freshman, he tells News 5 Cleveland.

The woman and teenager had posed for many pictures together.

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The boy's father told the channel: "First of all, she's a schoolteacher.

"To get aroused by a child basically you have to be a sick individual."

He added: "I was told by the school that she had a 'hold' on him and he was not cooperating so basically they can't do nothing with it."

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