Nov 24, 2006 - Former Brownsboro High School biology teacher Donald Gene Dudley, 44, was sentenced to nine years in prison . Dudley was found guilty of one count of sexual assault of a child, a second-degree felony. The verdict stemmed from numerous incidents of sexual contact between Dudley and a 16-year-old female former student beginning July 15, 2005. [Emphasis mine.]
Update: Jan 10, 2007 - Dudley pleaded guilty to a charge of indecency with a child and was sentenced to eight years. The sentence is to run concurrently with sentencing last year.
At the time of his indictment, Dudley was one of three Brownsboro teachers alleged to have had sexual contact with students. Former Brownsboro ISD Director of Bands Daniel Burns was convicted on charges of being involved in an improper relationship with a student and tampering with a government witness. Another teacher, Andrew Malone, was convicted of a misdemeanor for a similar offense.
Dudley was previously convicted of child sexual assault with the same victim on June 8. On June 9, he was sentenced to five years of probation and fined $2,500. Immediately after the [first trial] sentencing, the jury reported they’d intended to sentence Dudley to 10 years in jail and five years of probation afterward.
