Bad Bad Teacher

(08/21/08 – Initial BBT Report)

Allison Dean, 30, a former English and Oral Communications teacher at Magnolia Junior High School, in Magnolia, Arkansas has reportedly turned herself in for the sexual assault of a 15-year-old male student.

According to the Columbia County Sheriff, Dean gave drugs to the boy and had sex with him for a period of eight months.

Reportedly, Dean faces eight counts of sexual assault, each carrying a potential prison sentence of from six to thirty years, if convicted.

Dean resigned from the school last week.

Reportedly Dean is free on $25,000 bond pending trial.

Dean’s attorney in a public statement said, “She maintains her innocence and the allegations are wholly fabricated and false”.

Although Dean voluntarily turned herself in to police, she reportedly refused to give a statement to investigators.

CWArkansas.com reports:

An investigation into Dean began after the boy’s mother found several text messages on her son’s phone related to drug use and a caller refused to offer a name, an affidavit by police claims. When questioned by his parents, the boy admitted having sex with a teacher at his school, the affidavit claims.

The affidavit alleges that Dean gave the boy, who was not in any of her classes, her cell phone number. The relationship intensified and the two often met at the Genestet water well near Waldo, where they had sex and smoked marijuana together, the affidavit alleges.

Dean is the second Magnolia Junior High School teacher arrested on sex-related charges in less than four months. Donna Lou Sanders was arrested in April on two counts of accomplice to rape, four counts of third-degree sexual assault and six counts of permitting abuse of a minor.

10/08/09 – Guilty Plea and Sentencing

Just as jury selection was to get underway in the trial of Allison Dean she pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree sexual assault stemming from a relationship with a 15-year-old boy.

As a result of her guilty pleas, Allison Dean was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

References:

Ark. Ex-teacher Pleads Guilty To Sex With Student (10/08/09)

Ex-teacher at Ark. junior high pleads guilty (10/08/09)

Magnolia Jr. High teacher faces student sex charge (08/22/08)

Ex-Magnolia teacher accused of having sex with student (08/22/08)

Teacher Turns Herself in for Affair with Student (08/21/08)

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