MICHIGAN
MLive
By Barton Deiters | bdeiters@mlive.com
on December 16, 2014
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The Catholic schools tutor facing a decade or more in state prison for criminal sexual conduct with a 15-year-old boy could have taken a plea deal that would have resulted in her spending less than a year in the county jail.
Abigail Simon, 35, awaits sentencing next month.
In April, Simon, then a 33-year-old tutor with the Grand Rapids Catholic high schools, was arrested in Flint for having sex with a 15-year-old Catholic Central High School student.
Between April 2013 and the beginning of a probable cause hearing for Simon in Grand Rapids District Court in August, the Kent County Prosecutor’s Office offered Simon an agreement that would end the case and save her and the student from the spectacle of a lengthy hearing.
Chief Assistant Kent County Prosecutor Christopher Becker was handling the case at the time and he offered Simon the chance to plead guilty to second-degree criminal sexual conduct, a charge without penetration as an element. It carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison.
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