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Ex-Quebec teacher gets jail time for sex crimes against 15-year-old student

Darpan News Desk Canadian Press, 29 Aug, 2014 11:26 AM

A former Quebec high school teacher found guilty of sex crimes stemming from a relationship with a 15-year-old student will serve jail time.

Tania Pontbriand was found guilty last January of sexual assault and two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor for incidents between 2002 and 2004.

Quebec court Judge Valmont Beaulieu sentenced her today to a jail term of 20 months for sexual assault and 18 months on the exploitation charges, to be served concurrently.

The former teacher at a high school in Rosemere, Que., will also be on probation for two years and will have to register herself on the sex offenders registry.

Pontbriand asked the judge to delay her sentence by a week so she could spend time with her family, but he refused and she was incarcerated on the spot.

The Crown had sought between 18 months and two years less a day to be served in a provincial jail while the defence was seeking a conditional sentence.

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