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Guilty Teacher Pleads "Not Guilty" to State Charges Save Email Print
Posted: 8:35 PM Nov 21, 2008
 Last Updated: 8:35 PM Nov 21, 2008
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A former Lexington teacher has pleaded not guilty to state charges for having sex and fleeing to Mexico with a 13-year-old student.

Kelsey Peterson is already serving a six-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to federal charges. The 26-year-old former teacher appeared in Dawson County Friday. She entered a not guilty plea to charges of first-degree sexual assault of a child, felony child abuse and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Authorities say Peterson was the boy's sixth-grade math teacher at Lexington Middle School during the 2005-06 school year. They say she then started having sex with him in November 2006.
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Posted by: T on Nov 22, 2008 at 09:55 PM
Oh for cryong out loud, she is already serving time at the Federal level, why does the State have to get into this also, does she have to serve two sentences? She made a bad decision and had sex with this boy, she didn't kill him. She was wrong and is paying the price, but what more do they want, blood?
Posted by: Tom on Nov 22, 2008 at 03:19 PM
I don't hear the kid complaining. Let her free so the world can judge her as she walks down the streets.
Posted by: Randy on Nov 22, 2008 at 12:04 PM
This female teacher needs to lose her teaching license and be fixed via an operation. What kind of teacher would fall in love with someone in their own class and then take them somewhere to have sex with them. How young was this boy? I truly believe that she has a problem and it needs to be dealt with both physically and mentally. If memory serves me correctly, she had already plead guilty to other charges including the charge of having sex with a minor and now she is pleading not guilty? For what reason? She had already plead guilty. You do the crime...You do the time. She is not that special to do something like that and what gives her the right especially if she is a teacher? She deserves what she gets and I hope the judge throws the book at her!!! Find her guilty as charges on all counts and see how differently she acts when she is behind bars wishing that all of this never happened.
Posted by: Mel on Nov 22, 2008 at 08:23 AM
I'm not saying this person is not guilty, but did the police ever confirm for 100% sure that the young man was actually 15 at the time? If I remember correctly, there was no birth certificate and it was in question - but I can't remember if that was true or ever resolved. But, regardless of that - the kid was a student in a high school and at whatever age should be protected. The world is getting to be a pretty sad place when women begin to become the preditors rather than the protectors.
Posted by: She'll Walk on Nov 22, 2008 at 04:19 AM
The females always do, never the guys though. This poor 13 yr old kid could be ruined for life too!
Posted by: sylvia on Nov 22, 2008 at 01:10 AM
ok, the teacher pleads not guilty by reason of what? Stupidity?
Posted by: Chris on Nov 21, 2008 at 11:02 PM
She pled guilty at the federal level, but not guilty at the state level. Can anyone tell me what that means?
Posted by: Insider on Nov 21, 2008 at 10:59 PM
It's too bad her mom is not a state senator or that her dad is not on city council in omaha or she could probably get out of this without anybody knowing. Hmmm...makes one wonder what I know...doesn't it?!
Posted by: Scott on Nov 21, 2008 at 09:53 PM
Too bad the feds and the state dont pursue all the murderers in this state the way they did this gal!
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