The Great Smoky Mountain Journal
Staff, Wire Reports
Posted: Sunday, January 21, 2018 06:31 PM
Married Maine Teacher Indicted On Six Counts Of Unlawful Sexual Conduct With Minor Who Tried To Commit Suicide Over Affair
A married teacher in
Maine accused of sleeping with a student was indicted Tuesday on a
number of sexual assault charges.
Jill Lamontagne, 29, turned herself into authorities after she was
indicted by a York County Grand Jury on six counts of gross sexual
assault, two counts of unlawful sexual contact and six counts of abuse
of a minor, the Portland Press Herald reported.
“The indictment was the culmination of an investigation into a
relationship Lamontagne allegedly had with a juvenile, male student
while she was a teacher at the school,” Kennebunk Deputy Chief of Police
Michael Nugent said Wednesday, according to Seacoast Online.
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Lamontagne allegedly had a relationship with the male student, 17, who
was in her health class at Kennebunk High School at the time of sexual
contact.
An abuse order filed by the student’s mother in Biddeford District Court
states the relationship between the teacher and boy was revealed when he
was hospitalized following a suspected suicide attempt.
The student ingested a concoction of ibuprofen, Tylenol, cold medicine
and blood thinner Warfarin, according to the Press Herald.
The boy confessed to the relationship to his aunt a day after his
hospitalization. The student and his teacher had sexual contact
“numerous times, in the classroom, at her house, in her car,” the
student’s mother wrote. The student said Lamontagne performed oral sex
on him, adding that “other stuff happened.”
The student allegedly told his mother and a nurse at the hospital that
he loved his teacher and took the mixture of medicines to attempt
suicide, Seacoast reported.
Lamontagne told the student she hadn’t had a sexual relationship with
anyone for two years. Court records reportedly indicate she is married
and has children.
The teacher was placed on administrative leave June 12 when the boy’s
family notified the school of the sexual contact. Lamontagne then filed
for family medical leave, and was still on leave when she submitted her
resignation in September.
Lamontagne was booked on the charges and released on $1,000 bail. She’s
expected to appear in court Dec. 22.
