AZ Educator Gets Hand Slap in Sex Case - Updated

(Phoenix, Arizona) Yesterday, in accordance with a plea agreement teacher's aide Gabriela Antoinette Compton has been sentenced to probation for sex abuse of two 14-year-old male students.

Compton was indicted in April 2011 on three counts each of sexual abuse and sexual conduct with a minor and one count of furnishing obscene or harmful items to minors.

Prosecutors say she entered into a plea agreement. Compton could have faced a prison sentence of at least 39 years if she was convicted on all seven counts.

Compton received three terms of lifetime probation.

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AZ Teacher's Aide Faces Sex Charges
[Previous 3/25/11 post]
(Phoenix, Arizona) A 20-year-old teacher's aide at Western Valley Middle School, Gabriela Antoinette Compton, was arrested yesterday for allegedly giving inappropriate intimate biology lessons to two male students, ages 13 and 14.

Compton faces four counts of sexual conduct with a minor, two counts of sexual abuse, and one count of furnishing obscene material to a minor.

On Thursday, the principal and teachers at Western Valley Middle School near 63rd Avenue and Durango Street learned that Gabriela Antoinette Compton had sent a picture of her breasts to some of the male students, according to Sgt. Tommy Thompson.

School officials contacted the Phoenix Police Department.

Thompson said police detectives discovered that Compton had previously engaged in sexual acts with two male students, ages 13 and 14, in February.

Compton was booked into custody at the Maricopa County Jail without bond.