Teacher Gets No Jail for Oral Sex with Boy - Updated

(Cartersville, Georgia) Former Cloverleaf Elementary School teacher and middle school cheerleader, Gina Leigh Sabin, 41, has pleaded guilty to two counts of felony sexual battery stemming from sex acts committed on a boy under 16 years old.

Bartow County Sheriff's Office investigators had alleged Sabin twice performed oral sex on the minor in June 2009, but school officials have said the acts did not take place on school grounds.

Superior Court Judge Carey Nelson sentenced Sabin to 5 years, but she is allowed to serve the time on probation. Sabin also was ordered to pay a $1,000 fine.

Sabin was ordered to surrender her teaching credentials and to comply with some sort of modified (to be determined) sex offender conditions.

The exact age of the boy Sabin was servicing remains unreported and it's unclear how Sabin's conviction affects her family situation. Presumably, her two daughters and her husband, Woodland High School Principal Paul Sabin, are humiliated.

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Georgia Teacher Accused of Child Molestation
[Previous 8/25/09 post]
(Bartow County, Georgia) A 39-year-old 5th-grade teacher at Cloverleaf Elementary School in Cartersville, Gina Leigh Sabin, has been arrested for alleged child molestation. Sabin faces two counts of aggravated child molestation.

According to Bartow County Sheriff Clark Millsap, the investigation is ongoing.

Sabin was booked into custody at the Bartow County Jail with bail to be determined at a hearing today.