A Bay City teacher was arrested last month after the father of a 13-year-old boy caught his son and the educator having sex in the backseat of a car. It wasn’t the only such case in Texas this holiday season.

Rachel Gonzalez, 44, was arrested Dec. 15 and booked on charges of “online solicitation of a minor and improper relationship between educator and student,” Bay City police said.

The same week, Nicole Marie-Faires Andrews, a former middle school teacher, was accused by the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office of engaging in an illicit sexual relationship with a minor she met at a local church.

The Texas Education Agency opened more than 300 cases into educator sexual misconduct with students in fiscal year 2017 — 32 percent more than the year before.