CONNECTICUT
Norwich Bulletin
By JOHN BARRY
The Bulletin
Posted Jun 25, 2013
New London, Conn. —
A former teacher at a Sprague school accused of sending inappropriate texts to an underage student has been sentenced to probation.
According to the terms of a plea bargain agreed to in April, Robert Pfeiffer, 31, of Hebron, received a five-year suspended sentence and five years’ probation.
Pfeiffer will not be able to teach or coach during the five years of his probation. In addition, he is expected to have to submit to sexual offender status, in which he will be banned from unsupervised contact with minors. The terms of the deal don’t require him to register as a sex offender.
The plea bargain was made on the eve of Pfeiffer’s trial in New London Superior Court in order to spare the girl to whom he sent the messages the ordeal of testifying, said attorney Bernard Steadman, who represents her interests in court.
Note: This is an Abuse Tracker excerpt. Click the title to view the full text of the original article. If the original article is no longer available, see our News Archive.