Married middle school teacher sentenced to five years in prison for having a sexual relationship with her 14-year-old female student

  • Chelsea Rose, 24, a former seventh grade reading teacher and cheerleading coach from Kentucky, entered a guilty plea in September
  • Rose, who is married, admitted to touching and kissing a 14-year-old girl, supplying her with alcohol and sending her X-rated messages 
  • Rose must register as a sex offender and enter a treatment program

By Associated Press and Snejana Farberov For Dailymail.com

Published: 12:39 EST, 4 November 2015 | Updated: 17:36 EST, 4 November 2015

A former middle school teacher in Kentucky has been sentenced to five years in prison for carrying on a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old female student.  

A Marshall County judge handed down the sentence Monday after 24-year-old Chelsea Rose pleaded guilty to unlawful transaction with a minor.

Rose taught seventh grade reading and coached a cheerleading squad at Reidland Middle School in Paducah.

Chelsea Rose, 24, a former seventh grade reading teacher and cheerleading coach from Kentucky pleaded guilty in September to having an inappropriate relationship with a minor.
Rose is pictured with her husband of less than two years

Bad teacher: Chelsea Rose, 24, a former teacher from Kentucky (pictured right with her husband), pleaded guilty in September to having an inappropriate relationship with a minor

Rose taught seventh grade reading and coached Reidland Middle School's cheerleading squad in Paducah

Rose taught seventh grade reading and coached Reidland Middle School's cheerleading squad in Paducah

Denying Rose's request for probation or any lesser alternative, Circuit Judge Dennis Foust said Rose's sentence is to run concurrently with any jail time handed down in a related case in McCracken County, where she is facing up to three years behind bars, reported the paper Paducah Sun. 

The judge also said Rose will be required to register as a sex offender and complete a two-year treatment program before becoming eligible for parole.

Rose pleaded guilty on September 21 to charges of first-degree attempted unlawful transaction with a minor and third-degree unlawful transaction with a minor.

Rose (center) was accused of taking the victim and other minors to a home in Marshall County, where she plied then with alcohol and had sexual relations with the 14-year-old

Rose (center) was accused of taking the victim and other minors to a home in Marshall County, where she plied then with alcohol and had sexual relations with the 14-year-old

Rose, who is married, was arrested in early February after a student at Reidland Middle School came forward claiming she witnessed the teacher engaging in inappropriate sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl.

An investigation into the allegations revealed that the relationship between Rose and the teen had been going on for about a month.

Rose was accused of taking the victim and other minors to a home in Marshall County, where she plied then with alcohol and had sexual relations with the 14-year-old.

When questioned by police, Rose admitted to touching and kissing the girl at a drive-in, as well as giving her alcohol, according to the station WPSD.

The teacher and student also exchanged sexually explicit messages on Facebook, earning Rose an additional charge of prohibited use of an electronic communication device to procure minor in a sex offense in McCracken County.

She pleaded guilty to that charge in August and is scheduled to be sentenced in McCracken County on November 19.

 

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