Former teacher gets jail, probation for sex with student

YOUNGSTOWN — A 31-year-old former Warren G. Harding High School remedial reading teacher has been sentenced to three years’ probation, beginning with six months in jail, for engaging in a sex act with an 18-year-old male student.

Amanda Basile, of Austintown, drew the sentence this morning from Judge Lou A. D’Apolito of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

Basile pleaded guilty last month to a single fourth-degree felony count of gross sexual imposition, which was reduced in the plea agreement from sexual battery, a third degree felony.

Basile resigned her teaching job in April after she admitted to a Warren police detective that she had engaged in the sex act with the student outside of the regular school day.

Warren police referred the matter to Austintown police because the act purportedly occurred in Austintown.

The indictment said the crime occurred March 14 in Mahoning County.

Basile was charged under a state law that makes it a crime for a teacher, coach or administrator to engage in sexual activity with a student attending the school where he or she works.

Basile was hired July 12, 2012, and began teaching that August, according to school district files.

In her plea agreement, Basile said she agreed “that some form and period of incarceration will be imposed” and that she will have to register as a sex offender.

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