A professor at Anne Arundel Community College was barred from returning to campus earlier this month after agreeing to comply with a protective order from an 18-year-old student he was romantically involved with.

Robert “Reb” Beatty, 43, became an associate professor in the School of Business and Law in 2011, according to the college’s website, and was later named an academic chair. He teaches accounting, finance and statistics courses, according to the school.

Representatives for the college declined to comment on Beatty’s employment status.

“Anne Arundel Community College is committed to maintaining a safe and respectful environment for all members of our community,” said Dan Baum, the school’s executive director of strategic communications, adding the college takes “the necessary steps to address any concerns with the utmost seriousness.”

In court filings, the teenage student wrote that when she was in one of Beatty’s accounting classes, the professor began flirting with her after she agreed to babysit his children. At the time, she was a high school student taking a college course. In her complaint, she said Beatty delivered flowers to her home when she graduated high school. There was no note, she wrote, “so [her] parents wouldn’t know who left them.”

The teenager said she initially resisted Beatty’s advances, stating he would tickle her and had even pressed her against a wall. Eventually, she agreed to go over to his house but continued to say no to sex, though their relationship, as she called it, advanced.

One night when they were together, Beatty gave the student alcohol “to the point [she] couldn’t walk,” according to court documents. They then had unprotected sex “against [her] will.” When she said she wanted to get a morning after pill, which could prevent a pregnancy, Beatty said no, according to the complaint.

As of Thursday, no criminal charges have been filed against Beatty. A county police spokesperson declined to say if the department was investigating him.

On Aug. 19, Beatty agreed to the protective order filed against him by the student at the beginning of the month. As such, the case did not go to trial. According to the Maryland Judiciary, Beatty is not allowed to contact the student or go to her home through the end of the year.

Crighton Andrew Chase, who represented Beatty, in court declined to comment.

According to the college’s website, Beatty began teaching after playing professional soccer. A 1998 graduate from Archbishop Spalding in Severn, where he was named all-county player of the year, Beatty became a goalkeeper and excelled. He then went to Italy to play professionally but a career-ending injury led to him starting an import-export business in the European country.

Beatty returned to the United States and worked as a public accountant before starting at Anne Arundel Community College. On RateMyProfessors.com, a site where students evaluate their teachers, Beatty was overwhelmingly endorsed with students reporting him as an “insanely smart” and caring leader of challenging courses.

In 2017, Beatty’s classroom became the site of a viral internet moment. When administering a test, the professor allowed students to bring a 3×5 note card as a reference sheet. One student, a freshman, discovered a loophole when they brought a 3-foot-by-5-foot index card to the test. The student passed the test and Beatty described the experience in a 2017 interview with the Capital Gazette as “well played” and a lesson learned.

Despite the praise from other students, the teenager who filed for the protective order described a series of manipulative and aggressive behaviors from Beatty throughout their relationship. In addition to his insistence on unprotected sex, she alleged Beatty convinced her that her parents “were not looking out for [her] best interests.” She said her professor bought her a new phone and “strongly urged” her to block her family on it, according to the complaint.

The student said she was planning on running away from home to live with him before realizing she “wasn’t in a safe place.”

“I didn’t think he would let me leave if I tried to pack up and leave. I knew he would manipulate me and make me feel like I can’t leave,” the teenager wrote in her complaint. “He was very adamant that he had a lot to lose, and I had little to lose. I knew that if I was getting out of there I needed to go immediately and quickly.”

The student said she ran out of Beatty’s house and into her brother’s car, “shook and crying.”