Ashley Leigh Lewis Weber, 31, has confessed to two counts of having consensual sex with a minor at least 15-years-old
A married former high school history teacher has plead guilty to having sex with her 16-year-old student.
Ashley Leigh Lewis Weber, 31, has confessed to two counts of having consensual sex with a minor at least 15-years-old.
While both counts do hold year long prison sentences, the residing judge suspended one of them.
The former Freeman High School teacher, of Henrico, Virginia, was also charged with using a communication device to propose sex, but that was dropped due to her pleading guilty to the other charges.
She is expected to serve a mere six months.
According to Prosecutor Stacey Davenport, Weber met the student during the 2015-2016 school year. She had taken the boy up to her parent’s home, over the summer, where the two had sex. He was 15 at the time of the encounter.
The Freeman High School teacher, of Henrico, Virginia, turned herself into police back in August.
Authorities first learned of the possibility Weber had an inappropriate relationship with a student on June 12, according to the WTVR .
Henrico police were called to the school on a suspicious situation report.
Weber, a teacher at Freeman High School (pictured) in Henrico, Virginia, turned herself into police in August
She was granted $5,000 bond on the three charges and said she would be staying with her mother while on bond.
Courtroom testimony revealed that police allowed Weber to go to the hospital for an examination before she was taken to jail.
Weber has been employed with the Henrico County Public Schools system since 2009, according to spokesman Andy Jenks.
‘Ms Weber is not a year-round employee, and we have few details about the allegations other than what has been publicly reported,’ he told the station.
Jenks said it would be ‘inappropriate’ to comment further on Weber’s charges and did not reveal whether she will return to the school when classes begin in the fall.
She has been ordered not to contact the victim.