The trial of a former Auburn Adventist Academy teacher charged with having sex with one of his female teenage students has been moved from its original date of Dec. 6 to Feb. 14.

Scott Allen Spies’ file at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent offered no explanation for the rescheduling. But, according to the file, his attorney, Jeffrey Cohen, and the King County Prosecutors’ office both asked for the new date.

Prosecutors last February charged Spies, now 50, with one count of third-degree rape of a child and two counts of first-degree sexual misconduct with a minor.

Spies, who had taught at the school since 2009, pleaded innocent March 3.

If convicted on all three counts, he could be looking at a maximum of five years in prison.

The school fired him after he allegedly admitted the affair to the dean of women students.

According to the Auburn police detective’s statement, Spies admitted during an interview at his apartment on the day the incident came to light that he had sex with the student, the last occasion being exactly one year earlier than the new trial date.

According to his file, as police were arresting him, he admitted that what he had done was against the law but was surprised that he was being booked.

“He asked why he had to be arrested that night and why it couldn’t wait until morning,” according to his file.

Spies graduated from the Auburn Adventist Academy in 1979 and has a masters of arts degree in teaching. Before teaching at the academy, he taught eighth grade at nearby Buena Vista Elementary School from the fall of 2000 to the spring of 2008. Buena Vista is a Seventh-day Adventist school.

Spies is free on $150,000 bail.