INDICTED April 3, 2008 - Tabatha Fidler, 27, a health and physical education instructor at Gorham Fayette High School, was indicted this week by a Williams County grand jury with one count of sexual battery for sexual conduct with a 16-year-old boy.
Fidler was placed on paid administrative leave in January, when the district was first made aware of the accusations against her. She is accused of having sex with the boy last June in her home. She is due to appear in court April 10th.
NOT GUILTY PLEA April 10 - Fidler pleaded not guilty.
NBC 24 found Fidler's profile on a teacher website. In it she says that she's an athlete and that if she could change one thing in her life, it would be to not be so "boy crazy."A pre-trial hearing is scheduled for April 30.
Fidler is a single mother, raising a son. Her husband died suddenly last Christmas.
GUILTY PLEA & SENTENCING July 16 - Fidler changed her plea from not guilty to guilty in June after a second charge was added.
The first charge was based on accusations that she had sexual contact with a boy on one occasion in June, 2007, at her former home in Montpelier, Ohio.She was sentenced on two felonious sexual battery convictions to two concurrent three-year prison terms.
The other charge was based on earlier incidents with an 18-year-old student in April and May, 2004, when she taught in the North Central School District in Pioneer, Ohio.
The earlier incidents arose through anonymous letters and e-mails sent to the county prosecutor's office, county Prosecutor Thomas A. Thompson said.
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LEGAL INFO: (from story) Under Ohio law, sexual battery includes engaging in sexual conduct when the offender is a teacher and the other person is a minor.—in this case, a 16-year-old boy. The charge is a third-degree felony. Each charge carries a prison term ranging from one to five years.
