Prosecutors characterized a former Crown Point High School theater teacher as a predator who selectively groomed at least three students for later sexual relationships.
AdvertisementJudge Gina Jones sentenced him instead to 1.5 years in Lake County Community Corrections and another 2.5 years on probation in a three-hour hearing. He will have to register as a sex offender.He won’t appeal. His community corrections sentence is set up as one year on work release and six months in the Kimbrough Work Program.
Degenhart told her to “delete your emails” and lie saying it would ruin his life and he would “kill himself” or could lose his kids.It’s not fully known if the school contacted police after those first allegations emerged in the mid-2000s. Their physical relationship started at 17 with sex acts, but Degenhart waited until she was 18 to have sex with her, according to court documents.
According to the probable cause affidavit, the allegations of the inappropriate relationship came to light after the most recent victim, now a college student, reported the alleged relationship to her therapist.
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