MIAMI — A well-known former teacher at Palmetto Senior Significant College teacher who was convicted in January of obtaining intercourse with an underage scholar was ordered to jail Monday.
Miami-Dade Circuit Decide Cristina Miranda requested Jason Meyers to serve 20 years in prison just after becoming convicted on a few counts of statutory rape. Jurors decided he made use of his posture of authority to have sexual intercourse with a university student when she was 17. Meyers could have been sentenced to everyday living in prison soon after getting found responsible by the jury.
The decide, who also rejected a protection motion for a new trial, ruled that Meyers, 47, would serve 20 a long time for every of the 3 counts he was discovered responsible of but she explained the sentences would operate concurrently.
The judge also ordered Meyers, who has 5 younger little ones, to serve 10 many years of probation just after his release from condition prison.
“There is no sentencing I get enjoyment in,” she claimed whilst addressing a protection ask for that she contemplate Meyers’ younger kids and the influence the jail sentence will have on them. “There is constantly a household impacted by the final decision possibly way. You have the victims’ households. You have the defendants’ family members. I wish with all my heart he experienced not produced these conclusions.”
In the course of the demo, prosecutors portrayed Meyers as a predator who applied sexual themes in his artistic crafting class to entice a naive, then 17-yr-previous pupil into obtaining intercourse with him at least 3 situations.
Meyers was arrested in February 2016 on the rates. He was married at the time and his spouse, who labored at the college, was expecting.
The Miami-Dade college program fired Meyers following his arrest.
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