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Cobb middle school teacher resigned Friday following his arrest for stalking a former student.
Joseph Placanica, an eighth-grade science teacher at Durham Middle School, was arrested Thursday at the Crimes Against Children Unit, said Sgt. Dana Pierce, a Cobb police spokesman. Placanica, 40, allegedly began an affair with his former student, who is now 17 years old, in May of 2007, Pierce said.
She broke off the relationship with him in April. Placanica claimed the two had a sexual affair, according to his arrest warrant. Pierce said there is no evidence the relationship was sexual. But Placanica took the girl to Tennessee at least once, Pierce said.
After she broke off the relationship with him, Placanica continued to try to contact her at work, through text messages and on her MySpace page, he said. According to Placanica’s arrest warrant, he was seen outside Gold’s Gym on Cobb Parkway in Kennesaw on April 30.
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