Madeline Marx, 24-year-old Ohio substitute teacher, pleads guilty to sexual battery for having sex with two male students, ages 16 and 17! Her her insanity defense failed
Insanity plea fails rookie teacher, who pled guilty to two counts of sexual battery in Ohio court on Tuesday
Madeline Marx, 24, admitted having sex with two male students, ages 16 and 17
The substitute teacher was arrested at Kettering Fairmont High School in Nov after being reported for having relationships with the two 11th-graders
Marx confessed she had sex with the 16-year-old student in a store parking lot, and performed oral sex on the 17-year-old at an apt complex parking lot
She also admitting sexting with one of the boys
In Dec Marx broke down weeping in the courtroom after her lawyers unsuccessfully tried to plead ‘not guilty by reason of insanity’
A court ordered psychological evaluation found her competent to stand trial
Madeline Marx pled guilty to two counts of sexual battery in Ohio court on Tuesday
This comes three months after Madeline Marx’s lawyers tried to enter a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity.
After her defense team attempted to enter a ‘guilty by insanity’ plea in December, the judge ordered the 24-year-old to undergo a mental evaluation. Court appointed experts discovered that she was sane enough to be held responsible for her actions.
Marx was taken into custody at Kettering Fairmont High on November 8, 2017, after police started investigating the substitute teacher when students went to the administration and said she was having inappropriate relationships with students.
Prosecutors say they discovered that Marx had sexual encounters with two teenage boys aged 16 and 17.
An emotional Madeline Marx broke down and cried in court as her defense attorneys tried unsuccessfully to enter a not guilty plea by reason of insanity, three months back
Marx’s guilty plea comes three months after she broke down and cried in court as her defense attorneys tried to enter a not guilty plea by reason of insanity. A psychological evaluation later confirmed she was sane .
The substitute teacher at Fairmont High School in Kettering, from Ohio, was accused of having sexual relations with two students and sending nude photos to one of them on Snapchat and Instagram. Both boys were in the 11th grade at the time,
The younger boy said he had sex with Marx in a car parked behind a Kettering apartment building on September 21.
The other victim said Marx performed oral sex on him in a car parked in a Big Lots parking lot on July 19. Marx also allegedly confessed to sending nude pictures to one of the students on Snapchat and Instagram.
She is due back in court on April 19 for sentencing. She faces up to six years in prison and will have to register as a Tier III Sex Offender.
The accused teacher was arrested [photo], at the Kettering Fairmont High School in Ohio on Nov 8, 2017
Substitute teacher Madeline Marx, admitted having sex with two students, a 16-year-old boy and 17-year-old boy at Kettering Fairmont High [photo]
‘We became aware [Marx] was possibly involved with inappropriate activities with a juvenile,’ Kettering Superintendent Scott Inskeep said after Marx’s arrest.
‘When we become aware of them then we will remove those people and not have them around our students.’
Marx who wrote on her application to be a teacher: “I am passionate about children and their education. I am a hard-worker, who focuses on individual student’s strengths and needs. I have worked with special needs children since high school.” She cited as her top reason for wanting to be a teacher, as “The ability to provide children an advocate for their education as well as their well-being.”
She had been given a four-year teaching license last year that enabled her to teach grades K-12, WHIO reports.
Marx a member of the 2012 class at the nearby Chaminade Julienne Catholic High School, graduated last year from the University of Dayton. Notably she dropped out of a fall 2013 sexual ethics class, in college.
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