Teacher Pleads Guilty to Sex Offense Involving Student
posted 5:18 pm Tue August 28, 2007 - ELLICOTT CITY, Md.
A former Howard County special education teacher pleaded guilty Tuesday to a third-degree sex offense in connection with improper conduct with a 15-year-old boy.
Twenty-seven-year-old Kirsten Ann Kinley faces up to 18 months in prison when she is sentenced November 15th.
Kinley was arrested in February and accused of having sexual conduct with a student in late 2004 and early 2005 while she was teaching at Hammond Middle School in Laurel. She was charged with two counts of third-degree sex offense, two counts of fourth-degree sex offense and two counts of solicitation of a minor.
Kinley had been a special-education teacher in Howard County schools since 2002 and had worked at Marriotts Ridge High School since it opened in 2005.
The board of education fired her in May.
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Information from: The (Baltimore) Sun
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