Melissa Dalton, 34-year-old former art teacher at Ironwood Ridge High School, Tucson, Arizona, was sentenced to three years in prison and eight years’ probation. She was also ordered to register as a sex offender.
Dalton, who was arrested in April last year for alleged sex acts with two students, pleaded guilty in February to one count of sexual conduct with a minor and two counts of attempted sexual conduct with a minor.
According to court documents, Melissa Dalton allegedly engaged in sexual acts with a 15-year-old boy and 16-year-old boy in her classroom and in her car on several occasions from February to April 2012.
Oro Valley police were notified of the alleged incidents on in April of last year when the parents of a 15-year-old student contacted school administrators. The parents found out about the alleged incident after the ninth grader told his cousin that Melissa Dalton performed oral sex on him in the back of her art room on April 27, 2012.
Dalton had sex on multiple occasions with the 16-year-old student who watched the encounter with her freshman student. The student had been bragging for weeks about having sex with Dalton. Both Dalton and the student admitted that they had intercourse twice in her car, once in the classroom, and on a separate occasion in the student’s bedroom.
Defense attorney Michael Piccarreta asked the judge to sentence Dalton to the minimum of two years in prison because she took responsibility for her actions, is remorseful, has sought therapy and has support from family and friends, several of whom were present at the sentencing hearing.
Dalton sobbed apologized for her actions. “I’m so sorry because I was completely wrong,” she told in court. “I was their teacher, and I broke that trust and I should be held accountable, and I should be held to a higher standard.” She said as a parent of two young boys, she understood how the families felt and said she would feel the same way. “I wish that there was an apology that I could give that would be able to heal their hearts,” she said.
Anyway, another mother who fucks teens will have to register as a sex offender when she is released from prison.
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Melissa Dalton Gets Prison for Sex with Two Boys
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