by Akan Ido
Former teacher, Lauren Harrington-Cooper was on Friday sentenced to 9 to 23 months in jail after pleading guilty to having sex with students.
Harrington-Cooper, 31, was a teacher at a Pennsylvania high school when the incident happened.
She was initially charged with institutional sex assault of two students, ages 18 and 17, but ultimately pleaded guilty to charges of felony sexual contact. She also pleaded guilty to two felony counts of corruption of a minor for “sexually explicit conversations” and inappropriate sexual contact with two other boys, 17 and 16.
The former teacher who resigned from her job in January has been ordered by the court to register as a sex offender. Her teaching licence has also been revoked last month.
The teacher was arrested in December 2013, but faced additional charges in January, when a 17-year-old victim came forward. That boy told police that Harrington-Cooper had performed oral sex on him in a car, and that they had began texting each other in November of that year.
Prosecutors said the woman abused her position of power as a teacher.
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