Sex with two male student nets 8 years in prison. 
CHARGED August 10, 2007 - Monica Ann Cluck, 25, a kindergarten teacher at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School, was 
charged with sexual assault in the first degree and contributing to the delinquency of a minor for alleged sexual involvement with a 17-year-old male student.
Cluck's husband turned over a tape to police in July. She is accused of having sex with a 17-year-old boy at a church where she was a Sunday School teacher and choir director. Reportedly, the boy admitted to the relationship.
Cluck resigned on Wednesday.
LEGAL Arkansas state law says first-degree sexual assault occurs when an adult in a position of trust or authority over a person younger than 18 engages in sexual activity with the minor.
August 15 - A second boy is claiming he had a sexual relationship with Cluck that began when he was 17 and ended in May. The first charges came last week when a video tape surfaced showing Cluck and a 17 year old boy drinking alcohol and having sex. She will appear in Court August 16.
August 16 - KAIT K8 reported on Cluck's MySpace page and her anti-drinking teaching.
Next court date is September 28th.
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She was to be paid $30,270 for 190 days for the 2006-2007 school year.
School board minutes can be found here.
TRIAL June 18, 2008 - The jury was selected Tuesday. In the opening argument, the prosecutor said, "She is an adult woman and the two teens are 15 and 17 year old boys who still live at home with their parents and still go to school. We’re not here to cast any judgments but everyone is subject to following the law.” Her lawyer says her husband was abusive. “Two boys developed crushes on her and she became flattered,” Miller said. “And that’s what has led us here.”
Her husband was the first to testify about how he learned about the sexual relationship with the boy. He set up survelliance video and taped her having sex with the boy. He went to police. A pastor testified about a mother approaching him with print-outs of her MySpace page and text communication with her son. He did not contact police but spoke with the teacher. A father of a teenage girl testified that Monica Cluck exposed his daughter to alcohol.
"You send your kid to church and you never think alcohol would be involved,” he said.
GUILTY VERDICT & SENTENCING June 21, 2008 - The jury found Cluck guilty of two counts of sexual assault in the first degree and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. After three hours of deliberation, they sentenced her to eight years in prison. (Two eight-year terms to run concurrently.) The contributing charge is a misdemeanor for which she was find $750.
