A 75-year-old former Wisconsin school teacher from Monroe County was found guilty of sexually abusing a student at her place of employment and was given a minimum 10-year jail sentence.
On Friday afternoon in Monroe County, Anne Nelson-Koch was given a jail sentence following her conviction on more than a dozen counts, including child enticement—sexual contact, exposing genitals, pubic areas, or intimate parts to a child, and sexual assault of a child.
Nelson-Koch faces concurrent sentences for the 25 convictions, and following her release from jail, she will be placed on probation for 15 years, or “extended supervision.”
According to reports, Nelson-Koch, a teacher at a private school in Tomah, repeatedly attacked the teenage boy in the school’s basement during the 2016–17 academic year.
At the time, the youngster was 14 years old, and Nelson-Koch was 67. A 600-year prison sentence was a possibility for the former Wisconsin teacher.
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The family had requested a sentence that would have kept Nelson-Koch behind bars for the remainder of her natural life, according to Monroe County Assistant District Attorney Sarah Skiles, who spoke with Fox News Digital. Her office had requested a sentence of 100 years.
An “impactful” statement was delivered by the boy’s father at Friday’s hearing, according to Skiles, begging the judge to “protect his son because he felt that he had been unable to do so.”
Nelson-Friends Koch’s sentence was subsequently reduced by Monroe County Circuit Court Judge Rick Radcliffe, who acknowledged that Nelson-Friends Koch’s character was a “significantly mitigating factor” in the punishment.
According to Skiles, “I believe that this sentence is hurtful for some people in our community,” Fox News Digital said.
