A former teacher and mother of five in Illinois was sentenced last week to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to having sex with a male high school student.
Sarah L. Myers, now 41, of Garden Prairie, Ill., was a special education teacher at a high school in Poplar Grove, Ill., but the teen was not a special education student, the Boone County Sheriffs Department said, according to the Rockford Register Star.
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According to the Star, county prosecutors said the boy reported in April that he had been having sex with Myers since November 2016. Myers guilty plea applies to two encounters in Boone County, but charges are pending on allegations of a third encounter in Champaign County, prosecutors said.
Myers received credit for 261 days spent in jail and will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of her life, First Assistant States Attorney Lise Lombardo said...
