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Phys ed teacher won't serve jail time for sex with 13-year-old student
Tuesday December 4, 2007
Phys ed teacher won't serve jail time for sex with 13-year-old student
by The Associated Press
KINGWOOD -- A former West Preston Middle School physical education teacher will avoid jail time for a sexual encounter with a 13-year-old student.
Twenty-eight-year-old Lana Jo Rinehart of Terra Alta has agreed to a deal in which she'll serve two years' supervised probation and surrender her teaching license.
Preston County Prosecuting Attorney Melvin C. Snyder III said Monday that the deal, known as a pretrial diversion, was done at the request of the victim and the boy's mother.
Rinehart was charged in 2006 with third-degree sexual assault and sexual abuse by a custodian. According to court documents, the incident happened in September 2005, about two months before Rinehart resigned from the school system.