Lynnette McIntyre, 44-year-old mother-of-two and teacher's assistant at Centennial High School, Urbana, Illinois, has pleaded guilty to criminal sexual abuse in accordance with a plea agreement specifying she will serve two years of probation.
The allegations against McIntyre, of 2400 block of North Neil Street, Champaign, came to light in February 2010 when the boy’s parents found text messages of a sexual nature on his cell phone. The teen, a student at Centennial, told police that McIntyre was to tutor him and that on at least two occasions last month picked him up at his home and drove him to her apartment. On Jan. 31, after studying, they moved to her bedroom to watch a movie. There, she allegedly performed a sex act on him. Afterwards she sent him text messages of a sexual nature, which his parents found on the phone.
McIntyre pleaded guilty in the end of the November 2011 before Judge Tom Difanis to criminal sexual abuse, a Class 4 felony. She admitted that in January she committed a sex act in her apartment with a 17-year-old male student.
McIntyre will now have to undergo a sex offender evaluation and depending on what it shows, the judge will confirm or reject the plea agreement entered into by her attorney. She'll have to register as a sex offender. A more serious felony charge of aggravated criminal sexual abuse will be dismissed if the judge confirms her sentence at a Feb. 6 hearing.
