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Ex-Towamencin Teacher Gets 23 Mos. for Sex With 15-Year-Old Student

Nicole Jacques, 27, of Hatfield Village Apartments, will have to register as a sex offender for 15 years. She was formerly employed at Calvary Baptist School.

A Hatfield woman who had sex with a 15-year-old former student she taught at Calvary Baptist School in Towamencin is headed to Montgomery County prison for a maximum of 23 months.
Nicole Jacques, 27, of an apartment on the 2000 block of Maple Avenue, was sentenced Friday to 11½ to 23 months for felony corruption of minors, according to PhillyBurbs.com.
Per court records, Jacques was not prosecuted on 69 other felonies.
Jacques will have to register as a sex offender under Megan's Law for the next 15 years, according to the report.
Jacques resigned from Calvary Baptist School in January 2011 and committed the crime after she quit her teaching job, police said.
She cannot teach ever again, now that she has been convicted.
At one point, Jacques was facing up to 507 years in prison on all the charges: 
She faced 10 felony counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, 10 felony counts of statutory rape, 10 felony counts of unlawful contact with a minor and one felony count of corruption of minors.
If convicted on all counts, Jacques faced between 253-and-a-half to 507 years in prison, according to Assistant District Attorney Matt Quigg. The involuntary deviate sexual intercourse counts carry a sentence of 100 to 200 years alone, Quigg said.
According to the affidavit of probable cause, Jacques had sex 50 times with the 15-year-old male student and each performed oral sex on the other 20 times, all in her Hatfield Village apartment between January 23 and February 9, 2012.
They also exchanged 1,168 text messages between that time and 37 phone calls, according to the affidavit.
On Feb. 10, 2012, the father of the victim came to Hatfield Township Police to report an inappopriate relationship between his son and his former teacher, identified as Jacques, according to the affidavit.
Officer Daniel Tinneny of Hatfield Township Police reviewed Verizon cell phone bills for January, and observed an excessive amount of texts and phone calls coming from Jacques's landline phone and cell phone, according to the affidavit.
Officer Thomas Starner of Hatfield Township Police conducted a follow-up investigation and verified the numbers belonged to Jacques, according to the affidavit.
An interview with Mission Kids was conducted on March 2, 2012 with the victim. The victim told Mission Kids that since May 2011 he and Jacques had engaged in sexual activity, according to the affidavit. He said between February 2011 and February 2012, he and Jacques were involved in a romantic relationship.
The victim revealed the amount of times they had vaginal and oral intercourse at her apartment, according to the affidavit. 
Quigg said Jacques was working at a bank prior to her arrest.


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