A former high school art teacher accused of isolating a teenage student and grooming him for years before pressuring him into sex has been ordered to stand trial on four criminal counts.
A judge made the determination Tuesday regarding the case against 30-year-old Nicole Hernandez, also known as Nikki Baird. Hernandez faces four counts of unlawful sexual relations with a student stemming from her time as an educator at Wichita North High School.
While Hernandez allegedly insisted to investigators that the relationship was merely emotional and legal because it turned physical after the student graduated, court documents paint a darker picture of long-term manipulation…