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School Teacher Abused Minor Student: A former teacher from Maryland, America, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. He was accused of having sexual relations with a minor student several times. However, the student is now in adolescence. The student has alleged that his teacher had sexual relations with him in the year 2015. According to a report by Fox 5 DC, 32-year-old Melissa Curtis will face three decades in prison.
Once released, Curtis will be required to register as a sex offender for 25 years and will not be allowed to have unsupervised contact with minors other than his own children. The former teacher was charged on November 7, 2023 with sexual exploitation of a minor and multiple counts of third- and fourth-degree sex crimes.
had sex more than 20 times
According to Fox 5 DC, the sex crimes took place within Montgomery County, in Curtis’s vehicle and at several residences in the area between January and May 2015. Police said Curtis allegedly gave the eighth-grade student alcohol and marijuana and had sex with him more than 20 times. He said Curtis had been a teacher for about two years and had also taught at Lakelands Park Middle School.
confessed to the crime before the police
Prosecutors said the two were often left alone together after the young teen student volunteered for an after-school program led by Curtis, according to a court document. Police began their investigation in October 2023 when the victim came forward to plead guilty to sex crime charges. He pleaded guilty to three counts of third-degree sex crimes on June 20, the media outlet reported.
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