A married Alabama lunch lady admitted to bringing a teen student to her home — twice — for sexual encounters, according to local reports.

Amy Nicole Wigginton, a 41-year-old Lauderdale County Schools employee, confessed to having sex with a male student under the age of 19 on March 7 and 31, according to court documents reviewed by WAAY TV.

Wigginton, who is married with children according to her Facebook, allegedly brought the young man to her family’s Rogersville home for the sexual encounters, according to the Daily Mail.

The lurid lunch lady owned up to the illegal dalliances when confronted by local police and waived her rights while being taken into custody earlier this week, according to court records reviewed by WAAY TV.

The name and age of the student were not specified by authorities, though Wigginton is not charged with having sex with a minor. She faces two counts of a school employee engaging in a sex act, the court docs indicated.

The age of consent in Alabama is 16 years old.

The Lauderdale County Schools system consists of four high schools and seven elementary and middle schools, according to its website. 

“The Lauderdale County Board of Education is aware of the allegations, and the employee has been placed on administrative leave,” the district said in a statement to WAAY TV. 

“We will continue to cooperate with law enforcement officials, and have no further comment on this matter.” 

Wigginton was arrested last week and booked at the Lauderdale County Jail. She is being held on $100,000 bond, WAFF reported.

Her arrest comes on the heels of headline-making Christina Formella’s, a married special education teacher in Illinois, who is accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old male student.

She was nabbed on March 16, and footage released this week of her arrest went viral after she was seen breaking down upon hearing the charges she faced.

The 30-year-old wildly said later that she was being set up by her young victim — and targeted for being “good looking.”

Alabama will lose one of its top reserves from the past two seasons. Forward Mouhamed Diobuate is set to enter the transfer portal on Friday, according to multiple reports.

Dioubate came off the bench in all 37 of Alabama’s games last season and averaged 7.2 points, 5.9 rebounds and 1.1 assists. The forward put in several memorable performances off the bench over the past two seasons, including helping Alabama past Grand Canyon with nine points and five rebounds in the second round of the NCAA Tournament in his freshman season. He arrived in Tuscaloosa as the No. 78 player in the Class of 2023.

Diobuate is the second Alabama player to enter the portal, along with redshirt guard Naas Cunningham. The Tide has added two players in the transfer window, landing Bucknell center Noah Williamson and Florida State’s Taylor Bol Bowen.

It’s Friday, so first the quiz. Today’s report follows below.

Gambling bill, revealed

The gambling bill we’ve been hearing about for several days was made public on Thursday, reports AL.com’s Mike Cason and John Sharp.

The plan is from state Sen. Greg Albritton, an Atmore Republican. The proposal is for a state lottery, electronic gambling at former greyhound tracks and other sites, legal sports betting, a compact with the Poarch Band of Creek Indians for four casinos and the creation of the Alabama Gaming Commission.

Also, it calls for a 24% tax on net revenue from electronic gambling and sports betting, an excise tax on each gambling machine, and a sports wagering tax on each bet.

As with all gambling bills — they come up every year, and they fail every year — there is a companion bill that includes a constitutional amendment for the people to vote on. If the package were to pass, that amendment would be on the ballot for a Sept. 16 referendum.

Does it stand a snowball’s chance in Alabama? Doesn’t sound like it yet.

Albritton admitted he’s short of the 21 votes needed in the Senate.

Senate President Pro Tem Garlan Gudger, a Cullman Republican, did not sound enthused: “With 12 meeting days remaining in the session, both budgets still awaiting approval, and other important bills and measures demanding focus and attention, the comprehensive gaming bill released today is simply too little, too late, and has too few votes to pass.”

Capitol roundup

The General Fund budget, which includes funding for non-education agencies, was passed by the full House of Representatives. Keep an eye on it in the Senate. As we mentioned yesterday, state Sen. Rodger Smitherman, a Birmingham Democrat, has vowed to fight what he sees as anti-diversity cuts to the Birmingham Civil Rights Museum, the Magic City Classic, the Jazz Hall of Fame and others.

A Baldwin County issue over the distribution of a percentage point of the county sales tax led to conflict in the Senate. A bill was introduced that would prohibit county sales-tax money to be used for county school-board projects in areas that are served by a city school system. It pits those representing fairly new city school systems against those representing other areas of Baldwin County, and on Thursday it pitted Sen. Chris Elliott against Sen. Greg Albritton. Discussion was fiery enough that Sen. Linda Coleman-Madison, a Birmingham Democrat, told her two colleague to “take it back home.”

And the House passed a bill that would prohibit K-12 students from using cellphones and other such devices during class. It also calls for the State Department of Education to provide training on the risks of social media.

Hot and cold

If you feel like it’s been a little warm lately, it’s not just you.

Muscle Shoals, Tuscaloosa and Montgomery all tied or broke record highs Thursday. Those cities all hit 87 degrees.

AL.com’s Leigh Morgan reports that pattern’s expected to stay with us today and tomorrow. We might even have a few places flirt with 90.

However, don’t put away your jacket yet. A cold front is going to come into the state over the weekend. We could see storms and possibly even severe weather later Saturday, then it’s going to be cool for several days.

Quoting

“When we were doing our first read-through, I said to myself ‘Michael, you better step it up here or he’s going to walk all over you.‘”

Actor and Anniston native Michael Biehn, on playing Johnny Ringo, a nemesis of Val Kilmer’s Doc Holliday in 1993’s “Tombstone,” to CBS42. Kilmer died this week after years of health problems.

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