(Sacramento, California) Former McClatchy High School intern teacher Margaret De Barraicua was sentenced yesterday to 365 days in jail after she pleaded guilty to four felony counts of statutory rape. De Barraicua, 31, was originally arrested in February after being found having sex with a 16-year-old boy in her car behind Leonardo Da Vinci Elementary School in Sacramento. Police said she had her 2-year-old son in the back seat at the time.Sacramento Superior Court Judge Talmadge R. Jones said "Her moral compass was broken," as he imposed the jail sentence and five years probation. To the dismay of the prosecution, Judge Jones declined to require her to register as a sex offender even though her felony sex acts were considered "premeditated." Nonetheless, the judge was lenient.
From SacBee.com:
Jones credited the woman for her work as a volunteer at community organizations that help the poor. It is clear De Barraicua has a "big heart," he said.Sniff ... sniff ...
"Your big heart got you in trouble in that it didn't know limits of emotional love and sexual love," the judge said.
The judge allowed De Barraicua to remain free through the Thanksgiving holiday to spend with her family and ordered her to report to the Sacramento County jail on Dec. 2.
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I remember following this story years ago. After her initial conviction, she was rearrested several years later for a probation violation for continuing to see the student, although he was now an adult. That story seems to have been strangely erased from the internet though. De Barraicua claimed that the former student had beaten her and threatened to lie about still having a relationship with her.
That is the last I've heard about the story, but you would think that her best interest, if she was actually being blackmailed by this guy, would be to go to her P.O. and tell them that he was threatening her. To most people looking at this from the outside, it just seems like she was willingly going along with the affair despite the court order for no contact between the two.
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