Former Garfield High teacher and adviser for the student newspaper Taryn Fairbanks has pleaded guilty to felony charges stemming from accusations she had sex with a student in 2010, the Seattle PI reports:

Taryn M. Fairbanks, 34, now faces six months to a year in jail after pleading guilty to first-degree sexual misconduct with a minor, a felony.

“I abused my supervisory position as a teacher in order to engage in sexual intercourse with A.B.,” Fairbanks wrote in court documents, using the teen’s initials.

She will be sentenced April 8.

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