Posted on 01/08/2006 1:11:17 AM PST by ncountylee
SANTA ANA, Calif., Jan. 7 (UPI) -- A former California middle school teacher has been sentenced to six years in prison for having sex with three students less than half her age.
Sarah Bench-Salorio, 29, whose husband once ran for the school board, apologized tearfully for her acts at a hearing Friday, the Los Angeles Times reported. She taught at the Santiago Charter School in Orange.
"I understand clearly what I've done, and it will stay in my conscience that I've been an instrument of so much pain to those I truly cared for," she said.
The parents of the three boys said their sons changed, becoming angry and badly behaved, after their encounters with Bench-Salorio. The parents of one boy told the judge the teacher offered to tutor their son but instead took him to her house or to a parking lot where they had sex in the backseat of her car.
Bench-Salorio will have to register as a sex offender when she is released from prison.
Her lawyer argued the boys were willing participants who bought condoms and read pornography.
Finally, a teacher gets a serious sentence. Wonder when they stopped paying her?
How old were the boys??!
Middle school is what...13 or 14?
Mrs DeVilliers
You are so hot!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is indeed young. Therefore it was obviously a criminal act. If the boys are older... ...I think that a 6 year sentence would be too lng.
I also had a little romance with my (at that time 28 year old? - long ago) English teacher when I was 17.
:-)
I survived it without any psychological damage and I am still thankful for the things she thought me. You can believe me that this was not only English.
I think she should do time in my little pen. ;) I can erect some nerf bars and play pretend jail. :D
I survived it without any psychological damage and I am still thankful for the things she thought me. You can believe me that this was not only English.
You were going great until this paragraph. She should have spent more time on spelling than sex.
That's Debra LeFave.
A 25 year-old female music teacher in a nearby town, teaching at a private school, had an affair with a young girl, 15 or 16. The affair lasted longer than the teachers eventual 9-month sentence.
The teacher " ain't all that ".
However, the buxom deputy piques my interest.
I thought she taught you not only English. But then, maybe it was just in your thoughts? ;-)
Yowzah..........
It's different. It just is.
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