Local Teacher Pleads Guilty to Sex Offense

August 28, 2007 - 6:29pm

ELLICOTT CITY, Md. - A former Howard County teacher pleaded guilty Tuesday to a sex offense charge in connection with improper conduct with a 15-year-old boy.

Kirsten Ann Kinley, 27, faces up to 18 months in prison when she is sentenced Nov. 15.

Kinley was arrested in February and accused of having sexual conduct with a student in late 2004 and early 2005 while she was teaching at Hammond Middle School in Laurel. She was charged with two counts of third-degree sex offense, two counts of fourth-degree sex offense and two counts of solicitation of a minor.

Kinley had been a special-education teacher in Howard County schools since 2002 and had worked at Marriotts Ridge High School since it opened in 2005.

The board of education fired her in May.

ELLICOTT CITY, Md. - A former Howard County teacher pleaded guilty Tuesday to a sex offense charge in connection with improper conduct with a 15-year-old boy.

Kirsten Ann Kinley, 27, faces up to 18 months in prison when she is sentenced Nov. 15.

Kinley had been a special-education teacher in Howard County schools since 2002 and had worked at Marriotts Ridge High School since it opened in 2005.

The board of education fired her in May.

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