Former Texas HS teacher receives five years in prison for having sex with
five ADULT students
By ANDY SOLTIS
With AP
Last Updated: 7:24 AM, August 18, 2012
A Texas jury took less than an hour to find a former
high-school English teacher guilty yesterday of having group sex with five
18-year-old students at her home.
Brittni Nicole Colleps, 28, of Arlington, was convicted on
16 felony counts of an inappropriate relationship between a student and
teacher, and each count is punishable by two to 20 years in prison.
Colleps, who is married and has three children, turned
herself in after a cellphone video of an encounter with Kennedale HS students
surfaced.
The trial was marked by graphic testimony of the group-sex
romps, which occurred at her home in April and May 2011.
But three of the former students — who were football and
track athletes — testified that they did not consider themselves victims and
did not want to see Colleps prosecuted.
However, Arlington police Detective Jason Houston testified
that charges were filed because “18 or not, it’s a crime” for a teacher to have
sex with her students.
During the weeklong trial, a former student who is now 20
testified that he was the orgy participant who recorded his last encounter on a
cellphone.
He said initially the students spoke of the importance of
keeping their activities quiet because they didn’t want their teacher to get in
trouble.
He also said that when school officials first questioned
him, he denied the trysts because “I was trying to save her.”
Colleps’ husband, Christopher, who was serving in the Army
overseas at the time of the encounters, testified he is angry at her, but
stands by her “because ’til death do us part means ’til death do us part.”
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