HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) - A 25-year-old former Petal school
teacher, who was charged in January with having sex with a student,
has pleaded guilty.
Loni Marie Folks on Tuesday was given a 12-year suspended
sentence by Forrest County Circuit Judge Bob Helfrich. Helfrich
ordered Folks to serve five years of post-supervised release. Folks
was also ordered to pay $2,600 in fines and register as a sex
offender.
She faced a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison.
Folks' arrest came after Petal police discovered the W.L. Smith
Elementary school teacher was having sex with a 16-year-old foreign
exchange student from Italy.
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