FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- A Fort Wayne high school assistant principal who used to teach in Indianapolis was arrested on two counts of felony child seduction after the school told police he admitted to a relationship with a 17-year-old student.

Kristopher Sennett, 36, was being held on two $2,500 bonds Wednesday night at the Allen County Jail. The jail had no record of an attorney for him.

Sennett was suspended with pay from his job after the girl's parents told officials at Wayne High School on Friday that they were concerned he and the girl were planning to run away with each other after finding correspondence between the two, including a Valentine's Day card they believed he gave her.

The school district released e-mails they said were exchanged between Sennett and the student, who was a junior at the high school.

"This relationship is so real that I don't think of you as being that much younger," Sennett wrote in one e-mail, according to the district.

Sennett sent messages from a school computer and a school e-mail account, school officials said.

School officials told police that Sennett said he was in love with the student and "admitted having a relationship with her, but did not admit anything sexual," according to a police report.

State law prohibits any sexual contact between children and child-care workers, including teachers. Child seduction carries a sentence of up to one year.

Sennett has worked at Wayne High School for two years and had no prior disciplinary record, according to district records. He previously was a teacher for several years at Indianapolis' New Beginnings Alternative High School, 6News reported.