Kelsey Peterson Sentenced To 6 Years In Sex Case With 13-Year Old Student (Pictures)

Kelsey Peterson, 26, a former teacher fled to Mexico with a 13 year-old student, Fernando Rodriguez, so that she could have sex with him. Kelsey Peterson was sentenced Monday to six years in federal prison. See Kelsey Peterson and Fernando Rodriguez pictures below.

Click Thumbnails for Larger Pictures

Kelsey Peterson fled to Mexico with a 13 year-old student, Fernando Rodriguez, in order to have sex with him. Kelsey Peterson will now serve six years in federal prison.

Kelsey Peterson, 26, a former teacher, had pleaded guilty in July to a charge of transporting a minor across state lines to have sex and avoided a similar charge that would have carried a mandatory 10-year minimum sentence.

Kelsey will be credited for nearly one year she has already served and could get another year off for good behavior, said U.S. Attorney Joe Stecher.

The guilty plea certainly doesn’t mean Kelsey Peterson is off the hook on state charges, which include kidnapping and first-degree sexual assault.

Her attorney, James Martin Davis, said he hoped those charges will be dropped, but Dawson County Attorney Elizabeth Waterman said she intends to proceed with a state case.

Kelsey Peterson and her relatives and friends cried as they waved to each other across the courtroom and said, “I love you” after the hearing.

Kelsey Peterson began having sex with the boy, Fernando Rodriguez, when he was only 12 years old and a student at the middle school where she taught in the south-central Nebraska town of Lexington.

Peterson’s attorney, James Martin Davis, had publicly questioned the boy’s birth certificate. Davis said the boy was likely at least 16, and that he was the aggressor. Fernando Rodriguez does appear older than 13 years-old, but it seems unlikely that Rodriguez is the aggressor.

Amy Peck, attorney for the boy and his family, were angry at that suggestion.

“He was a 12-year-old boy and the defendant knew it,” Peck said in July, after Peterson’s guilty plea.

Kelsey Peterson was the boy’s sixth-grade math teacher at Lexington Middle School during the 2005-06 school year, and Kelsey started having sex with him in November 2006, according to court documents.

Kelsey and the Fernando took off in October, soon after the school district’s superintendent confronted Peterson about allegations of an inappropriate relationship with the boy.

Peterson was arrested a week later in Mexico after the boy made a phone call to his family.

The Associated Press previously named the boy as police were searching for him but stopped using his name after authorities charged Peterson with a sex crime.

The boy was an illegal immigrant at the time but has been granted humanitarian parole by the Department of Homeland Security.

Peck has said she plans to seek a visa that could put the boy and his parents on the path to citizenship.

She said there is no relationship between Peterson and the boy.

“I would fully doubt if there will be a relationship in the future,” Peck said.

Wow, that is just sick! What do you guys think?

Images: WENN

Source: news

Posted by: Monya

4 comments