A former\u00a0Texas middle school teacher\u00a0was sentenced to more than three decades in prison after being convicted of sexually abusing a 13-year-old student.<\/p>\n
A Webb County jury sentenced Adriana Rullan, 30, to 33 years in prison after finding her guilty of continuous sexual abuse of a child younger than 14.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jurors also sentenced her to 10 years for indecency with a child by sexual contact and 13 years for an improper\u00a0relationship between an educator\u00a0and a student.<\/p>\n
The sentences will run concurrently, and Rullan was also ordered to pay $20,000 in fines.<\/p>\n
The verdict followed a two-day trial in the 341st District Court, during which prosecutors presented testimony from six witnesses and dozens of exhibits, including text messages, photographs and video recordings.<\/p>\n
During the sentencing phase, the victim, who was 13 at the time of the abuse, told jurors the abuse cost him his friendships, his sense of self and nearly his life, according to KGNS.<\/p>\n
Adriana Rullan was sentenced to 33 years in prison after being found guilty of continuous sexual abuse of a child younger than 14.\u00a0 Webb-Zapata County District Attorney <\/p>\n
The victim\u2019s mother also addressed the jury, blaming Rullan for her son\u2019s depression and anxiety and describing the emotional toll the abuse had taken on their family.<\/p>\n
She told jurors Rullan was manipulative and should never be allowed to harm another child, according to KGNS.<\/p>\n
The jury returned guilty verdicts after deliberating for less than two hours, according to the Webb County District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
Rullan was employed at Antonio Gonzalez Middle School in Laredo, Texas. Google Maps<\/p>\n
The victim\u2019s mother also addressed the jury, blaming Rullan for her son\u2019s depression and anxiety and describing the emotional toll the abuse had taken on their family. Google Maps<\/p>\n
According to the district attorney\u2019s office, the investigation began Nov. 27, 2023, after the victim\u2019s parents contacted the United Independent School District Police Department with allegations of an inappropriate relationship between a\u00a0student and a teacher\u00a0at Gonzalez Middle School in Laredo.<\/p>\n
A forensic examination of the victim\u2019s cellphone recovered electronic communications documenting the relationship and provided significant evidence supporting the charges, a spokesperson for the Webb County District Attorney\u2019s Office told People.<\/p>\n
Rullan was arrested the following month and\u00a0pleaded not guilty\u00a0to all charges.<\/p>\n
It was not immediately clear whether Rullan intends to appeal.<\/p>\n
Fox News Digital reached out to the Webb County District Attorney\u2019s Office for additional comment and court records and the United Independent School District for comment but did not immediately receive responses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former\u00a0Texas middle school teacher\u00a0was sentenced to more than three decades in prison after being convicted of sexually…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4028,2118,11221,127784,8127,27,29,28,734],"class_list":["post-359671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-arrests","tag-child-abuse","tag-middle-schools","tag-sentences","tag-teachers","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}