Former Cincinnati high school teacher Emily Nutley, 43, will send three years in prison and five additional years on probation

She seemed to be in shock as she was sentenced on Wednesday for having sexual relations with a 17-year-old who was studying at St Xavier High School in Cincinnati

Nutley, a married mother-of-three pled guilty to sexual battery in April, was sentenced in the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court on Wednesday

She is required to register as a Tier III sex offender every 90 days for the rest of her life*

Emily Nutley, [photo], 43, will send three years in prison and five additional years on probation after she was sentenced on Tuesday for having sexual relations with a student at St Xavier High School in Cincinnati

An Ohio Catholic school teacher seemed like she’d been sucker punched in the courtroom on Wednesday, after she was told that she would be spending the next three years in prison for having sex with a student.
Additional to the three year prison stint, the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court tacked on five additional years on probation for married mother-of-three Emily Nutley. She is required to register as a Tier III sex offender every 90 days for the rest of her life.
Nutley, 43, was convicted Tuesday for having sexual relations with a 17-year-old who was studying at St Xavier High School, an all-boys school in Cincinnati. Back in April, she pled guilty to two counts of sexual battery for her affair with the teen which lasted from November to December 2023. 
Lurid details that came out at trial include the court hearing sexual charged messages she sent to the boy. In one instance she wrote: ‘What would be wild is that when the whole school is at Mass, I give you the best f**k of your life in my office.’ 
The sentencing memorandum details Nutley began texting her pupil, sending nude photos of herself, and requesting pictures from him. The teacher and student wound up having sex multiple times from November through December 2023. Several times at the schools learning center and after hours.
The memorandum states she also bought her student lover a pickleball membership, paid him a monthly allowance of $100 and provided him with answers to an upcoming test.
The memorandum which was released two days before sentencing, describes Emily Nutley as a child predator who should spend years in prison for her crimes.

Former Catholic school teacher, Emily Nutley who once also taught at an elementary school [image], pled guilty to two counts of sexual battery after her affair with her 17-year-old student. Prosecutors said she ‘preyed on the most defenseless person she could find’ as her job at the school entailed identifying at-risk students and monitoring their progress

In court Tuesday, the convicted former teacher addressed the gravity of her actions, ‘I crossed a line that should never have been crossed,’ she said. 
‘I think every day about the impact of my actions. I’ve lost my husband, my home, my friends. I’ve caused harm and embarrassment to my children.’ 
The teenager in his victims impact statement that was read by assistant prosecutor Elyse Deters, stated that his relationship with the teacher, ‘altered my high school experience and my life.’ 
In reflection, two years after the affair the teenager says ‘[I] didn’t know I was being taken advantage of.’ She ‘would not leave me alone,’ he said.
‘She told me she would kill herself if I ended it,’ said Nutley’s former teenage paramour. He then asked the court to impose the maximum penalty of 10 years for the abuse that ‘left me confused, lacking self-worth and depressed.
‘I can’t get away from this. I have a hard time trusting people, especially authority figures.’

The teacher’s teenage paramour told the court: ‘She told me she would kill herself if I ended it.’ Before sentencing Nutley herself told the court ‘I am not asking for forgiveness because I have not earned it,’ but the judge felt her show of remorse did not go far enough

The former educator told Judge Jennifer Branch that she is now ‘engaging with professionals who will help me understand [my] choices’ after previously claiming that her husband’s ‘neglect’ drove her to pursue relations with the teen.
‘I am not asking for forgiveness because I have not earned it,’ the former teacher said.
Unimpressed, Judge Branch said she was hoping to hear more of an apology from Nutley, as she sentenced the “predator” to a term of three years in prison.
‘I was looking for you to say that you acknowledge the harm that you caused this young man… You pretty much ruined the rest of his high school career,’ the judge said.
‘I didn’t see it. I didn’t hear it,’ the judge said as she ordered Nutley to register as a sex offender for the rest of her life. 

“I crossed a line that should never have been crossed. I think every day about the impact of my actions. I’ve lost my husband, my home, my friends. I’ve caused harm and embarrassment to my children” Nutley [photo], finally addressed the inappropriate relationship, in court on Tuesday

In separate remarks the victim’s father said his dream of going to college on an athletic scholarship was destroyed by Nutley’s abuse.
The former teacher has two daughters and a son, the eldest of whom is a junior at a different high school and only slightly younger than the victim. She met the teenager in 2023, when he joined a program for academically struggling students at the Catholic high school. She was the program supervisor.
The pair began texting after school hours last autumn and she sent the boy nude selfies and at least nine ‘sexually explicit messages.’
However by March 2023, the teenager desirous for the relationship to end, requested a release from the learning center’s help.

Nutley noted that she has lost her husband, Jonathan, and ’caused harm and embarrassment to my children’ [photo],. Shortly after the indictment Jonathan Nutley, filed for divorce, prompting his wife to accuse him of ‘gross neglect of duty and extreme cruelty’ in her legal response

Soon after the boy’s grades plummeted and he was failing three classes. Meanwhile Nutley continued texting the student, prosecutors said.
Eventually as rumors of the affair began circulating at the school, the teen met with school administrators on October 8, 2024, and reported at least four sexual encounters with the teacher.
Nutley was fired as soon as the criminal investigation began, which led to her being indicted by a Hamilton County grand jury and arrested on October 28.
Within weeks of the indictment Jonathan Nutley filed for divorce from his wife. Emily In her legal response to the divorce claimed Jonathan was “guilty of gross neglect of duty and extreme cruelty.” The divorce proceedings is ongoing.
Emily Nutley previously taught at Madeira Elementary School, also in Cincinnati, and posted photos of her work and students there on social media. Nutley then joined the Jesuit school ahead of the 2021-22 year and was listed as the ‘multi-tiered systems support coordinator’ in the student handbook. 

In addition to serving three years in prison, Nutley will serve a five year probation and will be required to register as a Tier III sex offender every 90 days for the rest of her life

In pre-sentencing documents, prosecutors argued Nutley ‘preyed on the most defenseless person she could find’ as her job at the school entailed identifying at-risk students and monitoring their progress.
The prosecutors asked for at least a five-year prison sentence, while the victim’s family asked Branch to sentence her to 10 years behind bars.
The defense argued their client already received threats from prison and has taken significant steps toward rehabilitation. Nutley has already lost a lot, her lawyers argued, adding that a doctor who examined her described Nutley as a ‘broken woman’ plagued by mental health and substance abuse issues.