Minnesota Teacher Gets Probation in Sex Case - Updated

(St. Paul, Minnesota) In accordance with a plea agreement, former teacher and coach Gail Gagne, 28, was found guilty and sentenced yesterday for engaging in sex with a student.

Gagne waived her right to a jury trial last month, letting a judge determine her fate, and admitted she had sex with a student who was 16 at the time while she was working as a weight room supervisor at Cretin Durham Hall in 2008.

In exchange, the judge found her guilty of a reduced charge of fifth-degree criminal sexual conduct -- a gross misdemeanor -- and dropped a felony charge of third-degree criminal sexual conduct.

Gagne has credit for one day served, paid a $300 fine, and will be on probation for two years.

Notably, Gail Gagne comes from a family of professional wrestlers, grandfather Verne Gagne and father Greg Gagne.

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Minnesota Teacher Accused of Sex with Male Student
[Previous 12/4/09 post]
(St. Paul, Minnesota) A 27-year-old teacher formerly at Cretin-Derham Hall High School, Gail Gagne, has been accused of engaging in sex with a 16-year-old male student in the summer of 2008. Gagne faces two counts of third-degree felony criminal sexual conduct.

A criminal complaint was filed on Wednesday (12/2/09) in Hennepin County District Court and a warrant was issued for her arrest.

In summer 2008, the student was completing a work-study job in the athletic weight room at Cretin-Derham Hall. He was a student athlete and also used the weight room. He "became acquainted" with Gagne because she was the weight room supervisor, the complaint said.

Gagne took the student out for meals that summer and gave him rides home from the school. He reported "that on several occasions," Gail Gagne "engaged in sexual conduct with him," the complaint said.

At the time, Gagne lived in Bloomington and she brought the student to her home "and engaged in oral sexual penetration with him," the student told police, according to the complaint said.

Later, the student said Gagne took him to a hotel near the Mall of America. They spent the night and had sex, the student said.

Defense attorney Earl Gray said Gagne would plead not guilty and go to trial.