A former science teacher at a private San Mateo school for children with learning disabilities was sentenced Thursday to a six months in jail for keeping child pornography at work and exchanging inappropriate messages with a 14-year-old student.
Jefferey Michael Hicks, 36, of Campbell, faced up to three years in prison if convicted by a jury but pleaded no contest in January to take the possibility off the table.
Hicks was also given three years probation and ordered to participate for a minimum of a year in an approved sex offender treatment management program. He must register as a sex offender for life and surrender to the county jail Aug. 9.
After Hicks was placed on leave from Stanbridge Academy for allegedly exchanging Facebook messages with the teen about masturbation, the school’s head found on his desk a CD labeled “Jeff’s folder” containing pornographic videos, according to prosecutors. He was arrested in May 2013 but has been out of custody on $100,000 bail.
Hicks joined Stanbridge in 2011, according to his LinkedIn profile. He taught science and sex education at the school and is also the founding artistic director of the nonprofit Actors Theatre Center in Santa Clara.
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