WICHITA, Kan. — A 41-year-old teacher at a private Christian school is accused of having a sexual relationship with a minor student.
Police arrested Matthew McFarren, a high school teacher at Trinity Academy in Wichita, on Saturday. Wichita police spokesman Charley Davidson said in a news release that detectives began investigating after receiving a tip that McFarren was having a relationship with a 16-year-old student. Police say Trinity Academy officials are cooperating with the investigation. The school has students in K-12.
References to McFarren are no longer on the school’s website. Investigators turned the case over to the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s office.