Teacher Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison for Having Sex with Students

Former middle school teacher, Allenna Ward was sentenced to prison for having sexual encounters with five of her male students. After a year of Police investigation, the court handed down the sentencing on Tuesday.

CNN.com reports that 24 year old Allenna Ward, a former middle school teacher has been sentenced to 6 years in prison for having sexual encounters with five teenage boys. Authorities said that Ward, met 14 and 15 year old boys at the middle school where she taught as well as at a local motel, a park and behind a restaurant. "I apologize from the depths of my heart," Ward said in court. According to Police this investigation began last year after school officials found a note that was believed to have been written by Ward to one of the boys. Some of the victims were students at Bell Street Middle School in Clinton, where Ward taught. She was fired from her job about a year ago. In September, Ward pleaded guilty to three counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor and three lewd acts on a minor. Tuesday, Ward was sentenced to 15 years in prison for each count of lewd act, however, the punishments were suspended to six years. She also was sentenced to six years on each second-degree criminal sexual conduct count. The sentences are to run concurrently. Not so surprisingly, Ward's attorney didn't want to speak to a reporter after the hearing.