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Teacher sentenced for sex with student

10:52 AM PDT on Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Associated Press

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A judge sentenced former Buckley teacher Rebekkah Todd to 6 months in prison for having sex with a 17-year-old student.

TACOMA, Wash. - A Tacoma judge ignored a plea bargain and sentenced a former Buckley teacher to six months in jail for having sex with a 17-year-old student.

Twenty-five-year-old Rebekah M. Todd had expected a sentence of 30 days in home detention when she appeared Friday in Pierce County Superior Court. She had pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree assault.

Prosecutors said they had evidence she performed oral sex on the White River High School boy. The health and physical education teacher resigned after she was accused and forfeited her teaching certificate.

The deputy prosecutor, Hugh Birgenheier, says the judge, Bryan Chushcoff, decided not to follow the recommendation from the plea bargain.

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