ARKANSAS
Daily Journal
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First Posted: October 28, 2013
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — An ex-teacher teacher at an all-girls school has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after contacting a girl she was convicted of sexually assaulting in 2010 and 2011.
Kelly O’Rourke was fired from Mount St. Mary Academy last year. Judge Barry Sims sentenced O’Rourke to a 15-year prison term but suspended all but 120 days and told the ex-teacher to stay away from the victim. Sims said Monday that O’Rourke instead contacted the girl more than 50 times.
Sims said O’Rourke willfully disregarded the court’s order and that he had to come down “pretty hard” on the ex-teacher. O’Rourke apologized.
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