Teacher Gets No Jail for Sexual Assault of Student

(Union County, New Jersey) Arrested in March, former Spanish teacher at Rahway High School, Christina Gallagher, 26, pleaded guilty last May to second-degree sexual assault for engaging in a two-month long tryst with one of her students. Last week, Superior Court Judge John Triarsi sentenced Gallagher to a lifetime ban on teaching in New Jersey. Banned from teaching (in New Jersey), but she gets no jail.

To be fair, the judge also sentenced her to 30 days community service, fined her, and required that she register as a sex offender. Gallagher will also be subjected to three years probation.

So, Christina Gallagher commits a sex crime and gets no jail. I'd call it a hand slap.