Seattle PI: Guilty plea in Garfield teacher sex case

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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