Posted on 08/29/2015 6:08:03 PM PDT by markomalley
A former Montgomery County music teacher was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Friday for sexually abusing 14 young children at an elementary school.
At the hearing, Lawrence W. Joynes spoke publicly about his actions for the first time and described himself as ashamed, frightened and remorseful.
“I’m so sorry I betrayed your faith and your trust in me,” said Joynes, a 27-year veteran of the public school system, addressing his former students in a statement. “I never, ever meant to harm any of you physically or emotionally. For any damage, any shame, any trauma that I’ve caused, I apologize from the depths of my soul.”
A teacher at 11 schools over his lengthy county career, Joynes pleaded guilty in May to sexually abusing students at New Hampshire Estates Elementary in Silver Spring, where he placed girls in sexual poses and made video recordings of them — movies he edited with sexually explicit captions, according to police and prosecutors.
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So, that would be about a quarter of an inch, then?
I hope he receives prison justice.
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