Brooklyn Teacher Gets No Jail Time For Sex With Teenage Boy

A Brooklyn teacher who pleaded guilty to having sex with the 16-year-old she tutored received no jail time. Instead of spending time locked up, Erin Sayer will serve 10 years probation and must surrender her teaching license.

Assistant District Attorney Serena Horowitz said that the boy and his family are amenable to the offer. “They stated to me that they don’t want to see the defendant spend time in jail.”

Sayer’s sexual relationship with Kevin Eng was discovered when the high school student’s girlfriend looked through his Facebook account and found out he wrote, “I love you so much,” to Sayer.

The girl got very angry and turned in the messages to school officials. The 37-year-old exchanged almost 4,000 text messages with the high school boy and had sex with him in classrooms and in her car.

In one late night hookup, Sayer drove to his house and picked him up in her car. According to a report, the two began kissing and then started having sexual intercourse and oral sex inside the car.

Eng reportedly wasn’t too shaken up by the ordeal and even bragged about it on Facebook. He was eventually placed in detention for making a mockery out of the situation.

Sayer isn’t the only teacher who managed to escape jail time for having sex with a student. In April, a New Jersey teacher received a three year suspended sentence for having sex with a 15-year-old student because of her psychiatric condition.

Erica DePalo pleaded guilty to child endangerment in February and admitted that she felt a lot of remorse for her actions. “I apologize to those who were indirectly or directly affected by my conduct,” she said.

Do you think Sayer should have been sentenced to jail time? Do you believe she would have gotten a harsher punishment if she was male?

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