Teacher Accused of Another Sex Crime

(Peoria, Illinois) Manual High School special education teacher Jodi Church is in more trouble. Earlier this week, she was charged in Peoria County with felony sexual assault of a 16-year-old student.

Yesterday, Church was in federal court to face a charge that she used the Internet to lure a different 16-year-old student into having sex.

According to a spokeswoman for the US Attorney's Office, Church is accused of using the Web site MySpace to entice a 16 year old Peoria Manual student into having sex on December 9th of last year.

According to the charge, the student said he was not interested but Church continued to discuss sex with him.

If convicted of the federal charge, Church faces a possible 10 years to life in prison.

So, in the span of five days, Church has been able to get herself charged with sex crimes in two different jurisdictions. I wonder what she has planned for next week.


[Update 08/20/07]

Church pleads guilty in federal court. Sentencing in November.


[Update 02/22/08]

Church sentenced to seven years prison in federal case.