Florida Teacher Sentenced for Sex with Student - Update

(Lakeland, Florida) Former teacher Jennifer Fichter, 30, was sentenced Thursday to 22 years in prison.

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Florida Teacher Guilty of Sex with Student - Update
[Previous 4/3/15 post]
(Bartow, Florida)

It was a surprise legal development Thursday in a Polk County court, involving a former teacher accused of having sex with her teenage students.

Jennifer Fichter had been scheduled for a pretrial hearing, but instead, unexpectedly entered a plea of guilty.

This lady was a true predator," said Lakeland Police Sgt. Gary Gross, whose department investigated Fichter's case.

Fichter plead guilty to 37 counts against of having unlawful sexual contact with a minor. Police say the victims were teenage students from the Central Florida Aerospace Academy in Lakeland.

Sentencing is scheduled for July 2.

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Florida Teacher Accused of Sex with Student
[Previous 4/15/14 post]
(Lakeland, Florida) A 29-year-old English teacher at Central Florida Aerospace Academy, Jennifer Christine Fichter, has been accused of engaging in sex with a 17-year-old male student.

Fichter faces six counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor.

Police said Fichter and the boy had been texting each other and meeting in the early morning hours for sex in her car in the parking lot of an apartment complex.

According to police, the mother of the boy saw the text messages and contacted Fichter, who admitted to the encounters and said she loved the boy.

Police said the boy admitted to meeting Fichter for sex six times inside Lakeland city limits and said the two met several time outside the city limits to have sex.

Fichter was booked into custody at the Polk County Jail.