Tennessee Teacher Sentenced in Student Sex Case - Updated

(Henry County, Tennessee) Last week, 36-year-old teacher Sandra Kay Curtis pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated statutory rape and one count of solicitation of a minor stemming from a relationship with a 16-year-old male student.

Curtis appeared before Judge Donald Parish on Monday, Aug. 17. Parish sentenced her to four years for each of the statutory rape charges and two years for the solicitation charge.

The sentences will be served concurrently and split with Curtis actually spending 180 days in confinement. The balance of the sentences will be served on supervised probation.

Curtis is forbidden to have any contact with the victims and she will not be allowed to work in any school system. She will also be registered as a sex offender.

Assuming Curtis doesn't violate her probation, case closed.

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Tennessee Teacher Arrested for Sex with Male Student
[Previous 4/22/09 post]
(Paris, Tennessee) An English teacher at Henry County High School, Sandra Curtis, was arrested yesterday for allegedly engaging in sex with a 16-year-old male student.

Curtis has been charged with three counts of statutory rape by an authority figure and three counts of aggravated statutory rape.

Investigators say the sophomore joined Curtis' English class in January. By February, they said, the relationship had begun.

Sheriff Monte Belew said the pair met three times after school hours- having sex once in a car, at a home, and at another undisclosed location. Within a few weeks, he says, the student told his parents.

"I think the 16-year-old just realized this was a situation gone wrong," Belew said.

Sheriff Belew says the student helped in the investigation- calls and text messages he says will be great evidence.

Curtis was booked into custody at the Henry County Jail and later released on $15,000 bond. A court appearance is scheduled for May 19th.