Missouri Elementary school nurse, 47, pleads guilty to having sex with a student under the age of 16, on EIGHT occasions – Tina Maria Sumner, admitted then offering the victim a $2,000 hush money check to drop the case
Missouri woman , 47, pled guilty to two counts of statutory rape and one count of victim tampering on Friday
Tina Maria Sumner worked as a school nurse at Fox Elementary School in Arnold when she had sex with a student under the age of 16 from 2015 to 2017
The student reported to police in Aug 2017 that he and Sumner had sex eight times in his home, her home and a Fox School District building
As per her plea deal, Sumner will serve a seven-year prison term, first she will be sent to a 120-day in-custody sex offender assessment program
After completing the program a judge will decide whether keep Sumner will remain in prison to complete her seven-year prison term or will be released
She’ll have to register as a sex offender and continue in a treatment program
She was facing up to 17 years in prison if had been convicted at trial
A former elementary school nurse in Missouri confessed to having sex with an underage student on eight occasions and offering him $2,000 in hush money to keep quiet about it.
Tina Maria Sumner, 47, pleaded guilty on Friday to two counts of statutory rape and one count of victim tampering.
She worked as a nurse at Fox Elementary School in Arnold when she had sex with the student, who was younger than 16, eight times between 2015 and 2017.
She then tried to pay off his car loan with the $2,000 check in exchange for his silence, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
One time nurse of the year, Tina Sumner, [seen photo in a 2013 interview with KTVI-TV], pled guilty on Friday to two counts of statutory rape and one count of victim tampering. According to her plea deal, she will serve a seven-year prison term that places her into a 120-day in-custody sex offender assessment program.
Former nurse at Fox Elementary School Tina Maria Sumner, pleaded guilty to two counts of statutory rape and one count of victim tampering on Friday, admitting to having a sexual relationship with a student from 2015 through 2017
The student came forward on August 30, 2017, reporting her to police saying he had sex with the 47-year old school nurse at his home, her home and a Fox School District building since 2015.
In a plea deal with prosecutors she will serve a seven-year prison term that places her into a 120-day in-custody sex offender assessment program.
Following that program she’ll be evaluated by the Missouri Department of Corrections and a judge will decide whether to keep her in prison or release her.
She will also have to serve five years of probation for victim tampering.
Sumner must register as a sex offender and continue a treatment program, according to defense lawyer Mark Hammer.
Her sentencing is scheduled for October 25 before Jefferson County Circuit Judge Darrell Missey. She had originally faced 17 years in prison if convicted in her trial, prior to her plea deal.
The lovers reportedly, had sex at Sumner’s home, the student’s home and a Fox School District building eight times between 2015 and 2017
Three months later the boy’s mother called an Arnold detective to report that Sumner not only broke the injunction but attempted witness tampering, by sending her son a $2,000 check to pay off his car loan if he vowed to drop the case.
The mother passed on a copy of the ‘incentive’ check to police.
Former elementary school nurse Tina Maria Sumner [photo], on Friday, admitted to having a sexual relationship with a student under 16 from 2015 through 2017
A police investigation also found in cellphone records that Sumner and the boy had between June and November 2017.
She worked for the school district for 16 years, according to 2017 payroll records, making $44,604 that year.
She resigned after the boy reported their sexual relationship in 2017.
In 2005 she was recognized as school nurse of the year by the Jefferson County Association of School Nurses.
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