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(Scroll down for video) A female teacher was spared a long prison sentence after it was established that she suffers from hyper-sexuality.
Blame it on a disease, that is what got the teacher out of trouble after she had sex with her student who is a minor.
Kathleen Cawthorne, 33, of Campbell County, Virginia, was sentenced to 11-years in prison for having an affair with her 17-year-old student, but she will serve only four months in prison after she has been diagnosed with bipolar and suffering from hyper-sexuality.
The teacher, who is married, is said to have hyper-sexuality, which causes a sudden surge of sexual urges. She was accused and later found guilty of taking the teenager to a remote area where they had sex. The teacher and student also exchanged nude photos of each other before the issue was discovered by school officials.
The teacher was originally sentenced to 11-years in prison. She was also sentenced to five years in prison for taking indecent liberties with a minor and another six years for three counts of electronic solicitation of a minor. The judge suspended all but four months of the sentence.
Cawthorne will be on probation for three years, she must register as a sex offender and she will not be allowed to teach again.
“For me as a parent of a teenager, this is very disheartening. We send our children to school to be educated not for the teacher to have a selection of students to choose from when her hyper-sexual desires flair-up causing her to have a strong urge for sex,” Keith Torres, 46, of Richmond, Virginia, told YourJewishNews.com after Cawthorne was ordered to serve only 4 months out of her 11-year sentence.
At the sentencing hearing, Rick McGee, an associate pastor at the Hyland Heights Baptist Church, testified that Cawthorne, who is a member of the church, had expressed "extreme remorse" for what she had done.
Her husband, Duncan, is standing by her after she apologized. He said he has forgiven his wife.
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