Former high school teacher Kinsley Wentzky has been sentenced to probation for a fling she had with a 17-year-old male high school student.
Wentzky, an honors English teacher at Dreher High School in Columbia, S.C., was charged back in January 2013 with sexual battery for dalliances with two students in her home. One of the students was a 17-year-old male.
The ex-teacher has now pleaded guilty to a single charge of unforced, non-coerced sexual battery with a student 16 or 17 years of age, reports local CBS affiliate WLTX.
The judge in Wentzky’s case sentenced her to five years of hard time in prison, but immediately commuted that sentence to a much more lenient three years of probation.
The facts concerning Wentzky and her young paramours came to light after the parents of one of the boys alerted the school principal, relates the Daily Mail.
Officials with the Richland County School District placed Wentzky on paid leave and eventually fired her, according to local NBC affiliate WIS-TV.
Police investigators claimed that Wentzky, now 36, had liaisons with two male high school students inside two homes — one in Columbia and one the adorable little brick ranch house in the quiet suburb of Forest Acres she shared with her family.
Wentzky was married when she had sex with the students and when the affairs came to light.
On her class webpage, she noted that she is the mother of two children.
Before she was sacked, Wentzky had taught at Dreher High for seven years.
The age of consent in South Carolina is 16. However, in 2010, the state passed a law forbidding teachers and other people in positions of authority from having sex with any of their charges under the age of 18.
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