Teacher Gets 45 Days for Sex with Student - Updated

(Kinston, North Carolina) Jones Senior High School teacher Shebana Rajput, 36, has been sentenced.

Rajput was sentenced in Lenoir County Superior Court to 10 to 12 months in the Department of Corrections, which was suspended to 36 months probation.

She will also have to pay a $10,000 fine for the sexual activity with a student charge.

She will serve a 45-day sentence in the N.C. Department of Corrections, which will begin today, for the one count of sex offense with a student.

Rajput was also ordered to register as a sex offender and to have no contact with her victim. It's unknown whether Rajput will keep her teaching credentials.

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Teacher Guilty of Sex with Student - Updated
[Previous 9/1/09 post]
(Lenoir County, North Carolina) Earlier today, 36-year-old teacher Shebana Rajput pleaded guilty to sex with a student.

The student, who was 17 at the time of the events, told investigators Rajput hired him to clean up her Kinston home’s yard during March 2007. Rajput allegedly told the boy the only way to clean the gutters was to access them through her upstairs bedroom window.

Inside her room, she lured him onto the bed, where she proceeded to have sex with him. The boy told police Rajput said he owed her because she was paying for him to work.

The boy told police of several other instances of sexual intercourse and oral sex elicited by Rajput in the weeks that followed. He said Rajput bought him a cell phone, car, expensive gifts and money in the process.

Sentencing is scheduled for September 28.

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Teacher Arrested for Multiple Sex Offenses
[Previous 6/10/08 post]
(Lenoir County, North Carolina) A teacher at Jones Senior High School, Shebana Rajput, was arrested yesterday for the alleged sexual assault of a 17-year-old student.

Rajput has been charged with eight counts of sexual activity with a student and one count of sex offense with a student.

According to a news release, Lenoir County Sheriff's investigators were contacted May 23 by Jones County authorities regarding an investigation of sexual assault by a teacher with a 17-year-old student, who attended Jones Senior High.

The incidents took place at Rajput's home, the news release said, which is why Lenoir County authorities got involved.

County authorities said in the news release that between the months of March and May, nine separate incidents of sexual activity with the student were indentified.

Rajput was booked into custody with bond set at $100,000.