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Ex-teacher who had sex with teen gets 3 months
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Angela Csader
A former kindergarten teacher who taught for six months despite facing charges of having sex with a teenage boy was sentenced Monday to three months in jail by a Maricopa County Superior Court judge.
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Angela Csader, 25, of Queen Creek pleaded guilty in March to two counts of sexual conduct with a minor. Each charge carried a maximum sentence of 1 1/2 years in prison.
Csader resigned from her job at Anthem Elementary School in Florence on Jan. 31 amid accusations of having sex with a 16-year-old Gilbert boy multiple times in 2006.
She faces 15 years of probation and will have to register as a sex offender.
Csader and the teen first had sex in August 2006, and they had sex at least twice more in the next month, records show. The boy also fathered her child.
She told officers that she once drove to Gilbert High School on the boy’s lunch break to have sex in her truck.
Police learned of the situation more than a year before Csader resigned, and in May she admitted having sex with the boy. But Csader wasn’t arrested until Dec. 18.
Detectives had spent a year investigating. But the boy and his parents did not wish to press charges, which delayed the arrest, officials said.
State law requires teachers to get fingerprint clearance cards issued by the Department of Public Safety, which enters the information into a database.
So if a teacher is arrested, her status as a teacher would pop up in a check. DPS then notifies the Department of Education, which in turn notifies the school.
But Csader’s case entered the courts through a process in which she wasn’t first physically arrested.
Instead, her case was forwarded to prosecutors, who didn’t decide to charge Csader until October.
She appeared before the court in December, and DPS didn’t suspend her fingerprint card until Jan. 8 or send notification to the Department of Education until Jan. 14.
Rep. Bob Robson, R-Chandler, proposed a state law in February to close those gaps in the notification system.
The House of Representatives unanimously passed HB2042, now moving through the Senate.
The bill requires DPS to regularly provide each school district with a list of fingerprint card holders who have been arrested or convicted.
It would also make educators who don’t immediately report their arrests to their schools guilty of unprofessional conduct, which calls for dismissal and exclusion from employment in other school districts.
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