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Adrianne Hockett
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Sex Offender
HOUSTON -- Jurors found a former Alief
Independent School District teacher guilty of sexually assaulting a
special education student, Local 2 reported Monday.
Former Teacher Faces Up To 20 Years
For Assaulting Student.
Student Says He Went To Teacher's
Home For Sex, Beer, Pot.
Adrianne Hockett, 26, was charged
with three counts of sexual assault of a child. She was found guilty
on one count.
The panel deliberated over two days
before reaching the verdict, which carries a sentence of up to 20
years in prison.
Investigators said the Hastings
High School teacher carried on a seven-month sexual relationship with
the boy, who was 15 years old when the relationship occurred.
The student, who school officials
say reads at a first-grade level, told investigators that he went to
Hockett's apartment for sex, drink beer and smoke marijuana.
The relationship occurred in the
summer and fall of 2003. Prosecutors said Hockett was "thirsty for
sex" and abused the trust of the boy's mother, who thought the teacher
was tutoring her son. But, defense attorneys insisted that the teacher
showered the boy with attention, trying to make a difference in his
life, and that the two never have sex.
During deliberations, the jury
panel, which was comprised of seven women and five men, asked to
rehear testimony from a neighbor of Hockett's who said she saw the
teacher and student kissing in the doorway, while Hockett was wearing
only undergarments. Alief ISD placed Hockett on paid leave the day the
student's parents made the allegations.
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