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Buckingham Woman Gets Jail For Having Sex With Student

Jessica Streeper, 34, faces 9 to 23 months in Montgomery County prison for charges she had sex with a Norristown student.

A Buckingham Township woman and former Norristown teacher was sentenced to prison Friday for having sex with a 14-year-old student in 2014.

The Bucks County Courier Times reported that Jessica Streeper, 34, faces 9 to 23 months in Montgomery County prison for charges she had sex with a student at Eisenhower Middle School.

She was charged in May 2014, after Norristown Police Department said it received an anonymous tip that an eighth-grade teacher at Eisenhower was involved in an inappropriate sexual relationship with a student.

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Their subsequent investigation led them to Streeper’s relationship with the student, police said.

Streeper and the boy communicated regularly by text message, and a forensic examination of the victim’s phone showed that the messages were sexual in nature, the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office said.

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On several occasions, Streeper picked the boy up at his Norristown home and they had sex in her car, police said. On multiple occasions she brought him to her Doylestown home, where they had sex, officials said.

Streeper was charged with institutional sexual assault, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, corruption of minors and related charges.

Streeper will begin her sentence Aug. 14; the judge gave her a week to make arrangements for her two children, ages 6 and 8, the Intelligencer reported.

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