Female Teacher to Get 60 Days for Rape, Sodomy

(Boone County, Kentucky) Last September, 29-year-old teacher at Boone County High School, Michelle Kush, was arrested and charged with two counts of rape and one count of sodomy for engaging in sex with a 15-year-old boy on multiple occasions. After Kush was arrested, her husband filed for divorce.

On Wednesday, the now 30-year-old divorced mother of two pleaded guilty to two counts of statutory rape, a count of statutory sodomy, and four counts of unlawful transaction with a minor. Kush admitted that she engaged in sex with the boy on at least three occasions and also provided him and his friends with alcohol.

As part of the plea agreement, prosecutors are calling for Kush to serve 60 days in jail and another six days under home incarceration. She will also be required to register as a sex offender for life and forfeit her teaching credentials.

Kush will be sentenced on August 9 by Boone Circuit Judge Tony Frohlich.

Whoa! Sixty days for rape and sodomy! Ouch!

I'm guessing, of course, but there's probably a long list of pedophiles who would be willing to make that trade several times every year.


[Update 08/09/06]

Kush sentenced.