Herculaneum, MISSOURI

Her family must be SOOOOO proud.
Sentenced to two years of probation for sex with an eighth grader.



Nov 26, 2007 - Teresa Engelbach, 22, a substitute teacher in the Dunklin School District, turned down a plea agreement on charges that she had sex with a 14-year-old student who was a friend of her brother.

The victim was an eighth-grade student at Senn-Thomas Middle School in Herculaneum.

Background
ARRESTED March 17, 2007 -

The teacher also allegedly bought the student expensive gifts including a phone, clothes, shoes, a laptop and a $750 paintball gun.
Sheriff Boyer says that the teacher had sexual relations with the boy on four occasions in the last six weeks.

CHARGES Englebach has been charged with three counts of statutory rape and one count of statutory sodomy. Her trial is scheduled for March 6.

GUILTY PLEA Mar 5, 2008 - Engelbach pleaded guilty of two charges for having sex with a 14-year-old student. Teresa Engelbach admitted in a plea last week to sexual relations with a student who attended a middle school in the Jefferson County. He later told a teacher at the school.

She also pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of sexual misconduct. Sentencing is scheduled for April 15.

SENTENCED (Sorta) April 15 - Jefferson County Circuit Judge M. Edward Williams [a name we want to remember for our list of lowercase judges] sentenced Englebach to two years of probation. Englebach pleaded guilty to second-degree statutory rape and sexual misconduct in February.

Noting that Engelbach had no prior criminal record and that there was no evidence of physical force in the sexual abuse of the boy, Williams said he would go along with a plea agreement to keep her out of prison.

But the judge told Engelbach, "I certainly hope that you realize the highly inappropriate nature of your behavior."

Unbelievably, her attorney told the judge that the incidents with the 14-year-old were "very unique and very specific in that she was having problems with her fiancé."Almond added, "This is a one-time incident where my client was in a vulnerable state."

Almond said after the sentencing hearing that Engelbach is now married to someone other than her former fiancé. He did not identify her husband. He also confirmed that Engelbach is pregnant.

He said Engelbach was trying to start an Internet-based business to help raise the money to pay her fine and also to pay counseling costs for her victim, which is a condition of her probation.Judge Williams also ordered Engelbach to undergo a mental health evaluation and to have no contact with the victim or his family.

Her fine is $5,000.

TT - Let's hope no one does to HER child what she did to an eighth-grade boy.