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Logan High School teacher told police he thought teen girl was an adult, had a sexual relationship with her

A teacher at Logan High School was arrested and booked into jail Friday after allegedly having sex with a 15-year-old girl.

Weber County sheriff’s deputies caught Joseph Scott Harris, 57, with the teen girl in a parked car in West Haven on Friday, according to a probable cause statement. “The two occupants were in various states of undress,” the document said.

At the sheriff’s office, the teen told police she and Harris had engaged in sex acts multiple times since Jan. 3.

In his interview, Harris said he’d met the girl online and thought she was 19, but “admitted” the teen “looked young,” the document says.