A teacher made a tearful apology as she was jailed for having sex with a 14 year-old school boy in her classroom on the last day before summer vacation.
Jessica Langford, 32, sobbed as she apologized for molesting the student in the locked room last May, with the Dayton Daily News sharing a video of her telling a court: ‘I would like to tell you how deeply sorry i am to you your family and everyone else impacted by my actions ‘I wish i could go back and undo all that happened.
‘I am completely responsible for my actions and should never have abused my power as a teacher and developed a friendship with a student. ‘I take responsibility for my actions that were unbecoming of a teacher.
I want to apologize for using social media inappropriately. ‘We should never have exchanged any form of communication, by doing so I highly overstepped my role as a teacher.’
Langford, who was sentenced to a year in prison Tuesday, added that she’d struggled to maintain boundaries with her class, and that she felt ‘trapped in a teacher’s life.’
But her words cut no ice with the boy’s dad, who condemned Langford for denying the crime and forcing him to endure the stress of testifying before a criminal trial.
He added that the youngster felt ’embarrassed and alone’ and that he has been targeted by bullies as a result of last year’s molestation.
Langford will spend just a year behind bars for three counts of sexual battery and unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, despite the maximum sentence for the crimes being 15 years.
The former Miamisburg School District teacher was let off with the lighter sentence because she has no previous criminal convictions, and because she is sole carer for her sick mother and young daughter.
She will serve her time at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville.
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