GA Teacher Shannon Alicia Schmieder Sentenced to 40 Years for Affair with 14 Year Old Family Friend (Daily Mail)
Shannon Alicia Schmieder, teacher’s assistant at Jefferson Parkway Elementary school in Coweta County, Ga., was jailed for 40 years for having sex with a 14-year-old student, that’s the toughest sentence handed down by a U.S. court to an educator for underage sex. It’s about time. Shannon Alicia Schmieder will have to serve 20 years of the 40-year sentence.
Daily Mail: The 39-year-old knew the boy since he was born and was at one stage like a mother-figure to him, according to his family.
His mother said: ‘She was a close family friend. We had gone to the same church together for 10 years. Our children were friends. Our families were friends. We did everything together. It’s impossible to describe how we felt to find out this was going on.’
The victim’s parents noticed a change in the relationship between their then 13-year-old son and Schmieder, saying she was acting more like a friend than a parental figure.It was when they opened the boys Facebook page they realized something was wrong.
The mother said: ‘Never in a million years did I think I would find what I thought was evidence of inappropriate behavior between them. But there it was.’
The district attorney said it best, “we believe that children deserve to be protected. This woman groomed and enticed a young boy she knew from birth to engage in these sexual acts. I crafted the sentence to take these things into account.”
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