Disgraced teacher gets 30 years in prison for sexually abusing elementary students

She went from Teacher of nan Year to having nan book thrown astatine her.

Jacqueline Ma, 36, is heading to situation for grooming and sexually abusing a brace of simple schoolhouse students. On Friday, a judge sentenced her to 30 years down bars, according to nan San Diego Union Tribune.

Ma, San Diego County’s Teacher of nan Year successful precocious 2022, was arrested successful April 2023 and pleaded blameworthy in February to 2 counts each of forcible lewd acts connected a kid and possession of matter depicting a insignificant engaging successful intersexual conduct.

The disgraced pedagogue taught fifth- and sixth-graders astatine Lincoln Acres Elementary School successful National City.

At her sentencing Friday, Ma said she was “deeply ashamed of my actions,” and apologized for ripping “away their childhood.”

“Instead of pursuing nan way of what a coach should be, I fto my selfishness override nan boys’ champion interests,” she told nan tribunal done tears.

Jacqueline Ma had been facing complete 100 years successful prison. FOX 5/KUSI)

“I conscionable believe for an other manus of protection and spot to each of those I’ve hurt. I’m truthful sorry.”

Police began investigating Ma aft nan mother of a 12-year-old boy she’d been grooming contacted authorities upon uncovering emotion letters and suggestive matter messages she’d written to nan child.

The grooming occurred complete a 10-month period, prosecutors said.

Ma was honored arsenic nan Teacher of nan Year successful precocious 2022, anterior to her April 2023 arrest. FOX 5/KUSI)

Years before, constabulary declare Ma had besides groomed an 11-year-old boy.

Neither unfortunate aliases their parents attended Friday’s sentencing.