Kelsey Peterson

Former Nebraska teacher Kelsey Peterson, who fled to Mexico with a 13-year-old student in order to have sex with him, has been given at eight to 10 years for first-degree sexual assault of a minor.It'll be tacked on to the six years she's already serving for transporting a minor across state lines to have sex.From the Kansas City Star: A former Nebraska teacher who fled to Mexico with a 13-year-old student has been sentenced to eight to 10 years in prison.Kelsey Peterson's sentence...Read Full Story

Former teacher Kelsey Peterson who fled to Mexico with a 13-year-old student so she could have sex with him was sentenced Monday to six years in federal prison. Peterson, 26, had pleaded guilty in July to a charge of transporting a minor across state lines to have sex and avoided a similar charge that would have carried a mandatory ten year minimum sentence. The charges also include kidnapping and first degree sexual assault. Peterson started having sex with the boy when he was 12 years old...Read Full Story

Have you seen this woman? Authorities are searching for a female teacher from Nebraska who they say kidnapped a 13-year-old former middle school student with whom she had a relationship. “Right now, there’s a warrant we got for the arrest of Kelsey Peterson for kidnapping, child abuse and contributing to the delinquency of a minor,” said Paul Schwarz, a criminal investigator for the Lexington, Neb., Police Department, to ABC News. The parents of Fernando Rodriguez reported their son missing...Read Full Story

UPDATE!  They were captured! Kelsey Peterson, who is 25-years-old, has run away with a young boy named Fernando Rodriguez, a 13-year-old student. Peterson taught math and coached basketball at Lexington Middle school in Nebraska. The latest news is Peterson probably has crossed the border into Mexico with Fernando. There is concrete evidence of the sexual nature of the “relationship,” as it was discovered on a school computer which had been seized by authorities. source I wonder where in...Read Full Story

(July 2, 2008) Former teacher Kelsey Peterson has pleaded guilty to fleeing the country with a 13-year-old student so she could have sex with him.Peterson, now 26, struck a deal with prosecutors that sets her up for about six years in prison.Just to up the odd factor here, the kid is actually an illegal alien in the United States, but maybe he knew what he was doing because Homeland Security has granted him temporary humanitarian parole while he and his family deal with the court case.Here's...Read Full Story