Sentence in student sex case shocks ex-teacher in Oklahoma [View all]

[NaturalHigh]

A former small-town teacher was stunned Wednesday to be sentenced to serve 10 years in prison for sex crimes involving a student, her attorney said.

“I can’t say that we had ever considered it being that harsh,” said Hollis attorney David Cummins. “It (the sentence) was somewhere in the neighborhood of at least twice what we anticipated.”

Harmon County District Judge Richard Darby sentenced Jennifer Caswell, 29, to 15 years in prison with 5 years suspended on each of six crimes involving sex with a 15-year-old student. The sentences are to run at the same time.

Caswell’s sentence exceeds the prison time served by Mary Kay Letourneau, perhaps the most well-known teacher convicted of rape. Letourneau, who taught in a Seattle suburb, served seven years in prison beginning in 1998 for having sex with a student beginning when he was 12. They are now married.

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