Charli Parker, a
former teacher at a private Christian school in Alabama accused of having sex
with two underage male students has been sentenced to three years in prison
after pleading guilty to one charge.
The 31-year-old Parker was sentenced to 12
years in prison, though she would only serve three years, followed by five
years of probation.
Parker, who was the head coach for the girls’
basketball team and taught physical education at Pickens Academy, had sex 11
times with one of the students at her home and in a cemetery between October
2014 and March 2016.
Parker must also follow the state’s sex
offender law and cannot have contact with the victim. She was arrested in March and indicted on 13
counts of a school employee having sex with a student under the age of 19.
The constitutionality of the state’s
teacher-student sex law is currently under appeal.
Although the student’s name was redacted from
official documents, authorities previously said her victim was male.
Not long after Parker’s arrest, her husband
Jamie, who also taught at the school and was the boys’ basketball coach, was
charged with having sex with a female student.
“There needs to be a definitive line drawn in
the sand that makes a statement to the public that this behaviour will not be
tolerated,” Chief Assistant Pickens County District Attorney Andy Hamlin told
WBRC.
“Nobody wants to see their kids going through
something like that. I have tried three or four of those cases in the last year
and it’s hard on the kids and it’s hard on the parents,” said Hamlin.
Parker has been ordered to begin serving her
sentence on Sept. 11, while her husband’s case is set for trial on Nov. 27.
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