Stanhope Elmore High School Teacher Sentenced to Year in Prison  33

jeffreystantonSchool: Stanhope Elmore High School

County & State: Elmore County, Alabama

Name of Teacher / Perpetrator : Jeffrey Stanton

Age of Teacher: 34

Month/Year of Arrest: February 2014

Month/Year of Sentencing: March 2015

News Source: Montgomery Advertiser

 

A former teacher at track coach at Stanhope Elmore High School in Millbrook, Alabama has been sentenced to one year in Elmore County Jail after having sexual contact with a student under the age of 19. Following his release, Elmore will have to register as a sex offender for life. Stanton was originally charged with rape in the first degree, a Class A felony. The grand jury indicted him on a lessor charge, a Class B felony. The judge handling the case, Ben Fuller, gave the jury a lessor charge to consider, a misdemeanor charge of a school employee having sexual contact with a student under 19.

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