Ex-Maryland teacher to serve fraction of 30-year sentence after pleading guilty to sex with teen student

A erstwhile Montgomery County, Maryland, teacher who pleaded blameworthy successful June to engaging successful enactment acts with an underage mediate schoolhouse pupil successful 2015, has been sentenced to 30 years successful prison, but volition lone walk a twelvemonth down bars, according to reports.

FOX 5 DC reported that portion 32-year-old Melissa Marie Curtis was sentenced to 3 decades for 3 counts of third-degree enactment offense, she volition lone walk 12 months down bars, with the remainder of the clip suspended.

In summation to the 12 months, Curtis volition beryllium required to acquisition 5 years of supervised probation. Once released, she volition beryllium required to registry arsenic a enactment offender for 25 years. Curtis volition besides not beryllium allowed to person unsupervised interaction with minors different than her ain children.

The charges stem from an probe launched successful October 2023, aft the unfortunate came guardant with allegations that helium engaged successful enactment acts with Curtis years anterior erstwhile she was a teacher astatine Lakelands Park Middle School portion helium was a student.

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Melissa Curtis was arrested for alleged intersexual maltreatment of a insignificant and aggregate counts of 3rd and fourth-degree intersexual offenses successful Montgomery County, Md., past year.   (Montgomery County Department of Police)

The incidents began successful 2015, according to prosecutors, erstwhile the unfortunate was 14, and Curtis was 22.

The pupil volunteered for an after-school programme tally by Curtis, and the 2 of them were often near unsocial together.

An probe recovered that the sexual assaults happened implicit the people of respective months, until yet ending successful April 2015. The assaults besides happened astatine antithetic locations, including astatine the school, wrong Curtis’ car, and astatine her mother’s location successful Montgomery County.

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The incidents began successful 2015, according to prosecutors, erstwhile the unfortunate was 14, and Curtis was 22. (iStock)

Court documents besides claimed Curtis gave the unfortunate intoxicant and marijuana, and that she had enactment with the teen implicit 20 times portion helium was successful eighth grade.

Investigators acquired an apprehension warrant for Curtis connected Oct. 31, 2023, charging her with intersexual maltreatment of a insignificant and aggregate counts of third- and fourth-degree intersexual offenses.

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Curtis pleaded blameworthy to 3 counts of third-degree enactment discourtesy connected June 20. (iStock)

She yet turned herself successful to constabulary connected Nov. 7, 2023.

Curtis reportedly pleaded guilty to 3 counts of third-degree enactment discourtesy connected June 20, and she was sentenced connected Friday.

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While the intersexual offenses occurred successful 2015, a spokesperson for Montgomery County Public Schools told the presumption Curtis near the territory successful 2017.