Teacher sentenced in student sex case

A Marion Superior Court judge sentenced a former Warren Township teacher
to two years on home detention today for an improper relationship with a 15-year-old student.


Sheila Vasquez, 36, was arrested in May and charged with four counts
of felony sexual misconduct with a minor.
She pleaded guilty this morning to one count in exchange for a maximum eight years in prison.

Prosecutors asked for at least four years in prison, but Court Commissioner Stan Kroh
gave Vasquez two years in home detention, followed by four years on sex offender probation.
She will have to register as a sex offender.

Vasquez, Fishers, apologized for her conduct and asked for leniency.
She has three young children.

She resigned from her job teaching eighth grade at the Eastside district’s Renaissance School.

In the spring, the student told authorities that Vasquez engaged in flirtatious behavior with him.
Then, the two concocted a plan for Vasquez to take him to her home in the Castleton area
May 1 so they could have sex, police said.

Vasquez arranged the trip by telling his foster parents that she was taking the student
on a special lunch outing to reward him for recent improvements in classroom performance.
She brought along a female student who stayed downstairs during the tryst, prosecutors said.

(The Indianapolice Star)