Female Teacher Sentenced for Sex with Schoolgirl

(Tyler, Texas) In May 2007, a 35-year-old teacher, Jennifer Elizabeth Bagley, was accused of engaging in a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old female student in one school district while she continued to teach in a different school district.

She was charged with sexual assault of a child and improper relationship between an educator and a student.

Yesterday, Bagley was convicted by a Smith County jury of having an improper relationship between educator and student. Then 241st District Judge Jack Skeen Jr. sentenced Bagley to 10 years probation with six months to be served in the Smith County Jail. The judge also ordered intensive supervision for the first three years of probation but specified no requirement to register as a sex offender.

Notably, Bagley testified during the penalty phase and vehemently denied she did anything wrong.

Ms. Bagley, who said she was bisexual, said "I haven't had sex with no students. ... I haven't given any students or children drugs."

She said a teacher who supplies drugs and alcohol to students and has sex with them should be punished with the maximum 20-year sentence. She said the jury's guilty verdict was incorrect and the girl who testified they had sex was a liar.

Heh. Bagley's okay and everybody else is wrong.

Bagley also faces trial in October on a charge of sexual assault of a child involving the same victim.


[Update 01/24/08]

Bagley has additional 10-year probation sentence imposed, to run concurrent.