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   NEW HAVEN — A former New Haven Public Schools teacher who   
   sexually assaulted one of her students has been sentenced to   
   serve nine months in jail.   
      
   Kirvanna Jones, who was 24 at the time of the assault in   
   December 2015, had sexual intercourse with a student who was 15,   
   according to the police warrant.   
      
   Jones initially was charged with second-degree sexual assault   
   and risk of injury to a minor. Admitting in court recently that   
   she had had intercourse with the victim, she pleaded guilty to   
   the risk of injury charge and was convicted on that count. The   
   guilty plea enabled her to avoid a trial.   
      
   The city Board of Education voted in June 2016 not to renew   
   Jones’ contract. She had been on administrative leave, with pay,   
   since her arrest in February 2016.   
      
   Jones was teaching math at Engineering and Science University   
   Magnet Middle and High School, a New Haven public school located   
   in Hamden, at the time of the sexual assault. The warrant stated   
   she first had texted to the boy photos of herself wearing only a   
   bra and a thong. The photos were sent in November 2015.   
      
   When a female student who knew the victim saw the photos on his   
   cellphone, she alerted an official at that school, according to   
   the warrant.   
      
   After New Haven police Detective Shayna Kendall and a   
   representative of the state Department of Children and Families   
   met with the school official, they contacted the victim, who   
   refused to say much about what had happened. But then they   
   called his guardian.   
      
   During a meeting at the school attended by the guardian, the   
   victim, Kendall, the state DCF worker and a school official, the   
   guardian asked the boy: “Did you have sex with that teacher?   
   Tell the truth.”   
      
   After the boy did not immediately answer her, the guardian   
   repeated her question. The warrant reported: “The victim   
   responded ‘Yes’ and stated that he did have sex with Ms. Jones.”   
      
   One day later, the victim and his guardian went to police   
   headquarters and provided a formal statement. The victim stated   
   that for the previous two years he had been communicating with   
   Jones on a level that became “boyfriend and girlfriend,”   
   according to the warrant.   
      
   The victim recalled that in the weeks before the sexual assault,   
   Jones had sent him text messages about having sex with him as   
   well as four photos of her semi-nude body.   
      
   The victim told police that on Dec. 2, 2015, Jones texted him   
   and then picked him up at his home. She drove them to her   
   apartment on Chapel Street. He said there they kissed and then   
   had intercourse.   
      
   The boy stated that after they had sex and Jones was driving him   
   back home, she wouldn’t talk to him. He recalled that at some   
   point she texted him and said: “I can’t believe I just did that!”   
      
   He said that before their sexual encounter, Jones had told him   
   his grades would be inflated due to their relationship. He said   
   he sometimes would not do homework or classwork but still   
   received As and Bs. She also allowed him to talk in class and   
   stand up when he wasn’t supposed to, without Jones reprimanding   
   him. But after they had sex, he said, she stopped allowing such   
   behavior. He said she appeared to be “mad” at him.   
      
   The victim said he sent a group text message to several friends   
   announcing: “We finally had sex.” Kendall spoke with witnesses   
   who confirmed receiving the message and said they knew he was   
   referring to Jones.   
      
   Several days after the victim gave his statement to police, a   
   search warrant was obtained for Jones’ apartment. Investigators   
   located underwear matching the photos sent to the victim as well   
   as bedsheets matching the boy’s description.   
      
   Police also spoke with a juvenile witness who recalled Jones   
   telling the victim he was “sloppy” and that he was “supposed to   
   delete them,” a reference to the text messages she had sent to   
   him.   
      
   Jones’ attorney, Brittany B. Paz, could not be reached for   
   comment. The prosecutor in the case, Senior Assistant State’s   
   Attorney Mary SanAngelo, declined to comment.   
      
   Superior Court Judge Patrick J. Clifford imposed a sentence of   
   10 years, to be suspended after serving nine months, with 10   
   years of sex offender probation.   
      
   The conditions of Jones’ probation also include being on the sex   
   offender registry for 10 years and not teaching, tutoring or   
   mentoring any minor under age 16. In addition, Clifford imposed   
   a 20-year protective order for the victim.   
      
   https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Former-New-Haven-teacher-   
   gets-prison-for-having-13461688.php   
       
      
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