A former home school teacher was sentenced on Monday after pleading guilty to sexual assault.
Alisa Andrews, 52, received four months in jail and ten years of probation following her admission to sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl.
According to a probable cause affidavit, an investigation into Andrews began after a pastor informed Rogers police that a parent told him that Andrews was involved in an inappropriate relationship with a student who attended a home school program at the pastor’s church.
At the time, Andrews was a teacher at the church through a home school education association. She was the teen’s biology teacher the semester before their relationship began, the affidavit mentioned.
When authorities questioned the teen, she told them that she was having a sexual relationship with Andrews but tried to break it off because she knew it was not right.
In October 2019, Andrews was arrested.
Deputy prosecutor Sarah Rhinehart says the girl agreed to the plea agreement. Rhinehart read the teen’s impact statement at court, which opened up about the severe mental and emotional trauma that she has faced due to the crime committed. She also says that she was suicidal and has been in therapy.
“I know now that none of this is my fault, and I want you to know that you have no power over me anymore,” Rhinehart read. “I’m no longer the broken girl I was. You don’t know anything about the person I am today, and you never will. I hope you know I don’t forgive you, and I hope I never do.”
Andrews will have to register as a sex offender and not be allowed any unsupervised contact with any minors other than her biological children.
