(KNZA)--The preliminary hearing for a Hiawatha woman facing a pair of child sex charges has been pushed back again.

Brown County Attorney Kevin Hill says the attorney for 19-year-old Teaini
Simmons requested a continuance Wednesday so they could enter in to formal plea negotiations.

The court granted the request and rescheduled the preliminary hearing for August 22nd.

Simmons faces charges of rape and aggravated indecent liberties with a child.

She was arrested May 15th following an investigation by the Hiawatha Police Department.

The investigation was launched after the department received a report from a concerned citizen that Simmons was romantically involved with a child under the age of 14.

She remains in the Brown County Jail, held on a $100,000 bond.