Tennessee Teacher Who Confessed To Statutory Rape With Five Students Receives No Jail Time

Marquita Alston, 24, was a teacher at Pearl-Cohn Entertainment Magnet High School who pleaded guilty to five counts of statutory rape with five different 17-year old boys, including encounters on school property. What is very surprising is that five counts of statutory rape by a teacher results in no jail time and only five years of probation.

Alston will have to register as a sex offender and undergo treatment.

The boys were close to the age of consent but the position as a teacher would normally warrant jail time.

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