Former teacher sentenced for sex with student
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Kristi Dance Oakes, 33, pleaded guilty to statutory rape in June as part of a deal with prosecutors that could have yielded an 18-month sentence. But Circuit Court Judge Richard Vance ruled she should spend six months in jail and the remainder on probation.
“We would have sent the wrong message if the court did anything less,” District Attorney General Al Schmutzer said.
A police officer found her topless and performing oral sex on the boy in her parked car near Douglas Dam in June 2004. Oakes, who is married with children, was the boy’s teacher the previous school year and they were working together that summer at an amusement park.
Oakes resigned as a science teacher at Seymour High School soon after she was charged.
The judge gave her 30 days to report to Sevier County Jail to serve her sentence.