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May 7,
2008
Ex-Glendale
Heights teacher pleads guilty to sex charge involving her former
student
She'd been the 15-year-old
boy's teacher in fifth grade
An ex-Glendale Heights teacher
who carried on a year-long sexual relationship with one of her former
students — a 15-year-old boy — was sentenced today to five years in
prison.
As part of a plea deal with
DuPage County prosecutors, 41-year-old Anastasia Pappas admitting
having sex with the boy, her former student, in 2005 and 2006, while
she was living with his family.
She had been the boy’s teacher
when he was in fifth grade at Blackhawk Middle School in Glendale
Heights, authorities said.
Pappas had also taught several
of the boy’s older siblings.
She moved in with his family in
2001 and was living in the basement of the house when the relationship
with the teenager began, prosecutors and family members said.
The relationship came to light
in 2006, after the boy’s mother discovered love letters between the
two.
The boy’s mother said after the
sentencing that Pappas “betrayed’’ the hospitality the family offered
her.
“She betrayed our trust,’’ the
victim’s mother said. “We trusted her with all of our children and our
house.’’
Pappas, who pleaded guilty to
felony criminal sexual assault, offered no apology in court and left
the Wheaton courtroom without comment.
She has three weeks to
surrender to begin serving her prison term, which likely will keep her
behind bars for about four years.
Source:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/936547,0508pappas.article |
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