Texas Teacher Skates on Student Sex

(Lubbock, Texas) A 33-year-old teacher formerly with Terry County schools, Kristen Neill, has been sentenced to deferred adjudication for inappropriately touching a student.

Neill, 33, pleaded guilty Jan. 21 to a second-degree felony charge of having an improper relationship between an educator and student.

She was sentenced to seven years deferred adjudication and is required to forfeit her teaching certificate.

As part of the plea bargain, the state dismissed another felony charge Neill was facing of indecency with a child.

Neill was fined $2,000 and $333 in court costs. She avoids being classified as a sex offender and will have no record if she successfully completes seven years of probation.