MOULTRIE, Ga. — A Colquitt County educator who is accused of molesting a junior high school student voluntarily resigned after he was quickly served with termination papers by the school system.

Sebrun James Holton Jr. tendered his resignation this week after his arrest on Friday by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Colquitt County Schools Superintendent Doug Howell said on Wednesday.

The GBI announced on Tuesday afternoon that Holton, 26, of 505 W. Broad Ave., Doerun, had been charged with two counts of aggravated child molestation and one count each enticing a child for indecent purposes and sexual assault by persons with supervisory authority.

“He no longer works for the Colquitt County School System,” Howell said of the former C.A. Gray Junior High teacher during a Wednesday telephone interview. “He has not been back on the school grounds since he left that day (Friday).”

The school system was not the reporting agency in the allegations, Howell said. It was made aware of them after the GBI questioned Holton on Friday. The GBI’s questioning and subsequent arrest of Holton took place off campus, he said.

Jamy Steinberg, special agent in charge of the GBI’s Thomasville office, said in an email response Wednesday that the allegations came to light after the girl notified family members, who in turn got in contact with the Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office requested the GBI’s assistance in the investigation.

The reported “sexual acts” involving the 15-year-old victim took place in October and December, Steinberg said, in incidents out in the county and at C.A. Gray Junior High School, he said. Both occurred after school hours.

“The victim had been a prior student of Holton and Holton was involved with a school related activity this year as a faculty member who had supervisory authority over the victim,” Steinberg said.

Action taken by the school system was swift once the allegations were brought to light, Howell said.

“We gave him an option of he can be terminated, or he can resign,” he said. “We served him with termination papers. He chose to resign.”

Holton’s resignation of his contract means that he will not be eligible to file an appeal as would have been the case if he had been terminated. In an appeal of a school system decision the accused has the right to hear the testimony from the alleged victim in a forum that is open to the public.

While the resignation both eliminates the possibility of bringing the student into public light for such a hearing and ends Holton’s association with the school system permanently, the school system will report the allegations to the Georgia Professional Standards Commission as required, Howell said.

That agency is tasked with certifying and licensing of educators and revoking teaching certifications.

Holton was a ninth-grade literature and composition instructor at the Gray campus, according to the school’s web page.

He had been teaching in the system for about four years, Howell said.