Guilty! Christine Powell, Middletown, Connecticut (arrested Feb 2012)

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    Name: Christine Powell, 24 Dobson Circle, Middletown, Connecticut

    Age: 39

    School: Middletown High School [Middletown Public Schools], Middletown, Connecticut

    Position: Special education teacher

    Victim: Not specified

    Switchboard.com:

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    Original Greenwich Diva (23 Feb 2012): Former Middletown High School teacher Christine Powell accused of having sex with minor

    Courant (14 Feb 2012): Middletown Teacher Arraigned On Sexual Assault Charges -- Judge: 'Allegations Are Extraordinarily Troubling'

    Courant (14 Feb 2012): Middletown School Employee Arrested

    Middletown Press (14 Feb 2012): Middletown school employee accused of sex assault (video)

    WFSB (14 Feb 2012): Former teacher arrested on sexual assault charge in Middletown

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    Christine Powell, Middletown, Connecticut, Middletown Public Schools, Middletown High School
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    NBC Connecticut (14 Feb 2012): Middletown Teacher Charged With Sex Assault

    Middletown Patch (14 Feb 2012): BOE Employee Arraigned on Sexual Assault Charges

    WTNH (14 Feb 2012): Former special needs teacher arrested for sex assault

     
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    Greenwich Time (15 Feb 2012): Ex-teacher charged with sexual assault

     
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  8. TMP

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    Expanding on the above a bit ...

    Middletown Press: Lawsuit: City, school board were negligent in teacher sex case [document] (June 22 2012)

    The city and the school board were negligent and failed to protect a special education student from sexual abuse by a former Middletown High School teacher, according to a claim filed Thursday in Middletown Superior Court.

    In the letter of complaint filed with the court, Attorney Richard Kenny — who represents the 17-year-old victim and his mother — claims that the school failed to protect the victim from the sexual abuse he was being subjected to by Christine Powell. Powell was arrested and charged with second-degree sexual assault in February 2012. She is due back in court in her criminal case July 17.
     
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    Thanks for the update:

    Aformer Middletown High School special education teacher who pleaded guilty to having a sexual relationship with a student was sentenced Friday to nine months in prison. Christine Powell, 40, of Middletown, had pleaded guilty in March to second-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor and faced up to 18 months in prison. The boy Powell sexually assaulted was one of her students. The boy's mother told Judge David P. Gold that her son has changed for the worse since Powell sexually assaulted him. "She deserved to go to jail for what did to my son," the woman ...