Texas Teacher Gets No Jail in Student Sex Case - Updated

(Houston, Texas) After two days of deliberations last week, the jury at 43-year-old Shannon Hrozek's trial deadlocked on two counts of sexual abuse.

Consequently, Hrozek agreed to plead guilty to reduced counts of improper relationship between an educator and a student in return for no jail time.

With her guilty plea, Hrozek accepted an agreement that ended her sexual abuse trial and her teaching career.

She said, "I want to thank everybody who supported me throughout this entire ordeal, and the people who stepped up at the end to support me."

Prosecutors accused the 43-year-old of performing oral sex on two students in her classroom at Westfield High School last year. The first victim was 16 years old and the other was 15. Both are football players.

"The pleadings on the improper relationship between educator and student indicated that there was sexual contact, that the defendant touched each of the complainants' genitals," explained prosecutor Denise Oncken.

Hrozek was able to walk away without an order to register as a sex offender, however, she will be on probation for ten years and was ordered to have no unsupervised contact with children under 17.

Notably, some jurors were upset with the plea deal, believing that Hrozek deserved prison and registration as a sex offender.



* * * * *
Teacher Caught Performing Oral Sex on Boy
[Previous 1/8/08 post]
(Spring, Texas) A 42-year-old English teacher at Westfield High School, Shannon Kay Hrozek, has been arrested for allegedly engaging in classroom sex with a 16-year-old male student. Hrozek has been charged with sexual assault of a child.

According to court documents, she was caught by the school's assistant principal performing oral sex on a 16-year-old male student inside Classroom 143 at the high school.

A school principal used a master key to get into the classroom after a janitor had informed him that the teacher and a student were in the room alone with the lights off.

Hrozek was booked into custody at the Harris County Jail and released on $50,000 bond last night.

Classroom 143 will never be the same.