Teacher Gets Prison for Carnal Knowledge of Boy - Updated

From TheTownTalk.com:

A former Hornbeck schoolteacher who pleaded guilty to felony carnal knowledge of a juvenile was sentenced Thursday to 10 years at hard labor and fined $2,500 plus court costs, Vernon Parish officials said.

Maurna Cay Thornton, 41, of Hornbeck had been employed as a teacher at the Hornbeck school when she developed a relationship with a 14-year-old she had taught, Assistant District Attorney Mark Kramar said.

Kramar said 30th Judicial District Court Judge John C. Ford suspended five years of the sentence and placed Thornton on five years supervised probation to begin when she gets out of prison.

Thornton was also ordered to register as a sex offender. Her incarceration begins today.


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Teacher Guilty of Carnal Knowledge of Boy
[Previous 5/21/08 post bumped]
(Hornbeck, Louisiana) In May 2007, a 39-year-old eighth-grade teacher at Hornbeck Junior High School, Maurna Thornton, was arrested for alleged inappropriate behavior with a 14-year-old male student.

The Vernon Parish Sheriff's Office was alerted to the alleged offense by the victim's parents.

In August 2007, Thornton resigned her position with Hornbeck Junior High School.

Last Thursday, Thornton, now 40, pleaded guilty to one count of felony carnal knowledge of a juvenile before Honorable John Ford in a Vernon Parish proceeding. Ford ordered a pre-sentencing investigation for July 3.

Thornton is scheduled to be sentenced on July 31, 2008.