Teacher Gets No Jail for Sex Crimes

(Kingston, Michigan) Last August, 27-year-old English teacher at Kingston High School, Kristen A. Margrif, was charged with eight counts of criminal sexual contact with a 16-year-old eighth-grade student.

Magrif confided to her pastor that she was intimately tutoring the boy over a period of weeks at several locations. In accordance with state law, her pastor notified the authorities. Concurrent with the criminal sexual conduct, Margrif behavior was explained by the fact that she was having trouble with her marriage and contemplating divorce.

Margrif pleaded no contest to criminal sexual conduct in March. Last Tuesday, Margrif was sentenced.

From The Saginaw News:

A judge has barred a former Kingston High School English teacher from the classroom as part of her punishment for having sexual contact with an eighth-grader.

Kristen Margrif, 27, of Mayville avoided incarceration when Tuscola County Circuit Judge Patrick R. Joslyn ordered a one-year delayed sentence Tuesday on three felony counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a student.

Joslyn told Margrif that if she stays out of trouble for a year, prosecutors will reduce the charges to three counts of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct, which are misdemeanors.

If all goes well for Margrif during the year, she will begin five years of probation on the misdemeanors, said Prosecutor Mark E. Reene.

So, I presume she gets to skate after mixing it up with an eighth-grader. All three felonies disappear. Poof! Gone! All she has to do is not be stupid, ostensibly while under a microscope, for a year.

To be fair, her sentence also included provisions for probation and registration as a sex offender. Fortunately, though, thanks to the sympathetic court in Tuscola County, she'll never have to dwell on her crimes while looking at the cold, bare walls of a prison cell.