Posted on 03/07/2008 10:54:47 AM PST by day10
HILLSBORO — A former substitute teacher in the Dunklin School District in Jefferson County will be sentenced next month after pleading guilty of having sex with a 14-year-old student. Teresa Engelbach, 22, of Pevely, pleaded guilty last week to one felony count of second-degree statutory rape and one misdemeanor count of sexual misconduct. She could get up to 7 years in prison and a fine of up to $5,000 on the rape charge, and up to 6 months in prison and a fine of up to $500 on the sexual misconduct charge. Jefferson County Circuit Judge M. Edward Williams set sentencing for April 15. The charges against Engelbach were filed last March after the student, then in the eighth grade, reported to a teacher that he had had sex with Engelbach, a substitute teacher at Senn-Thomas Middle School in Herculaneum. The teacher told school administrators, who called police. The incidents took place last year between Feb. 1 and March 13 in several areas of Jefferson County and did not involve other students, police said. Engelbach had a substitute teaching certificate from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, which requires a fingerprint background check through the Missouri Highway Patrol and FBI. Those checks came back clear, Dunklin Superintendent Stan Stratton has said. Stratton said Wednesday that Engelbach had not taught in the district since she was charged. Her attorney, Daris Almond Jr., was unavailable Wednesday for comment. Stratton said Engelbach also formerly taught at the district's high school and elementary school. She began working for the district, which has 1,350 students, in September 2006. Jim Morris, a spokesman for the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, said Engelbach did not renew her substitute teaching certificate for the 2007-2008 school year.
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Based on the photo in your post: Not Guilty.
You are most likely correct.
Possible Adam’s Apple alert!
I can remember when I was 14 and I would have been hitting on her just as I did the cheerleaders and every girl that wasn't a total Woofer.
By that time I was 6’ tall and had been shaving for 2 years.
Some laws are just stupid when they offer no latitude for context.
NOT GUILTY !!!
BTW, not so guilty!
Yep....at 14, given the opportunity, I’d have been on her like a racoon on a trash bag...
Clearly not guilty.
“I don’t feel tardy.”
I thank God daily that, imperfect as I am, I do have that moral compass....and His help in keeping it straight.
Maybe that’s why he turned her in.
She was too critical about his hang time.
Yes, indeed. That most certainly is a better picture. Much better. Thank you, SIR!
SOOOO not guilty!
Some years ago a fellow I worked with told me that he was "abused" when he was a lad.
He visited the woman every day after school. Kept losing weight. Grew very tired. Kept on going there anyway.
Sounds like a meth addict.
Of course at that age sex could have the same effect.
Dang! There needs to be a moratorium on all hiring in the teaching profession until NEA implements procedures to weed out these perverts. Our children aren’t safe.
We all have a moral compass; but I think they are like muscles...the more we use them the stronger they become, and if neglected, they atrophy and fail when most needed. This is why I agree with CS Lewis when he says, "I don't believe in atheists." We are all made with an inherent knowledge of our creator, and there is no ridding ourselves of that despite the ardent desire of some to do so. Turning one's back to God is quite different than not believing in his existence.
Wow, what a hottie! OMG where were these sluts when I was in school?
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