A female teacher has found herself in serious trouble after a video of her having s*x with a 16-year-old student went public.
Ekatherine Pappas
A former first-year high school teacher from Baltimore has been sentenced to prison after she admitted to having s*x with her 16-year-old male student and videotaping at least one of the encounters,
Dailymail reported.
The teacher identified as Ekatherine Pappas, 25, pleaded guilty in June to three misdemeanor counts of sexual offense against a student. As part of a plea deal, prosecutors agreed to drop additional felony counts of sexual abuse of a minor.
Before the incident, Pappas was a former Spanish teacher at Franklin High School was handed a sentence of three years in prison, but a judge suspended all but one year and one day of her term.
Upon her release, Pappas will spend five years on specialized and enhanced supervised probation and will be required to register as a s*x offender for 15 years,according to a report by the Baltimore Sun.
The case against Pappas began unfolding in early January when a video surfaced at the school showing the 25-year-old teacher having s*x with the 16-year-old victim.
A school resource officer saw a copy of the X-rated video on a student’s phone and notified administrators, reported the station WBAL.
On the day officials at Franklin High School became aware of the sex video, Pappas went to Dulles Intentional Airport and boarded a flight to Bogota, Colombia.
She returned to the US a few weeks later and was arrested at the airport.
According to court documents, the victim told detectives his Spanish teacher asked him to cut class on two separate occasions, on December 21 and 22, and drove him to his house for the purpose of having s*x with her. One of their sex sessions was recorded on video.
Pappas, a graduate of Loyola University, had been teaching at Franklin High for just a month when she became involved with the 16-year-old boy, according to prosecutors.
The boy's father wrote in a victim impact statement submitted to the court that his son and their entire family have been devastated by this case.
‘I cannot begin to explain the terror of being notified that my son had been sexually abused and it was on videotape that had been circulated throughout the school for others to see,’ the parent stated.