A former middle school teacher who admitted having sex with her 8th grade student but asked for leniency because her lawyers claimed the 14-year-old boy was a "willing participant" is now serving a 3 year sentence at the Florida Corrections Facility for Women in Ocala, Florida.
Stephanie Peterson, 27, will have to do two years of community control following her prison time, in addition to being forced to register as a sex offender for the rest of her life.
Peterson pleaded guilty in October 2018 to charges of lewd and lascivious battery sex act with a child and electronic transmission of material harmful to minors for sexting and having sex with a 14-year-old middle school boy at New Smyrna Beach Middle School in Volusia County, Florida.
Initially, the ex-teacher faced between five and 10 years.
