‘She manipulated me and had total control’: Pregnant former special education teacher sentenced for kissing, sexting and asking high school soccer player to be her ‘secret girlfriend’

Emily Lehneis appears in a booking photo

Emily Lehneis appears in a booking photo from May 2023. (Southern York Regional Police Department)

A now-former high school special education teacher and soccer coach, currently pregnant with her third child, will spend at least a year behind bars because she engaged in an inappropriate relationship with a high school student, a judge in Pennsylvania ruled this week.

Emily Lehneis, 30, was originally charged with solicitation to production of child pornography, unlawful contact with a minor, obscenity, institutional sexual assault, and corruption of minors, according to the Southern York Regional Police Department.

In September, as part of a plea agreement, she admitted to one felony count of school – intercourse/sexual contact with student and one misdemeanor count of corruption of minors. The state dismissed the remaining charges. On Dec. 26, she was sentenced to between one and two years in prison by York County Judge Kathleen J. Prendergast.

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