July 31, 2008 - Malachy Henry, 53, a Mandarin High School teacher, was sentenced on Thursday to spend 90 days in prison (TT -we're thinking they mean jail, not prison.) for simple battery on five female students. He was convicted of inappropriately touching five teenage girls.
At his sentencing hearing, Henry didn’t admit to do anything to the girls. [sic]Four other charges are still pending against Henry from other girls who said Henry also touched them inappropriately and made sexual comments.
"She said so, and they just took the kid's word and the teachers are thrown under the road so to speak," Henry said in court.
In addition to spending 90 days in prison, Henry will also have to go to three months of treatment.
Duval County
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