Who Is Jamee Hiatt? Ex-Teacher In Michigan Gets Prison Sentence For Sexual Relationship With 14-Year-Old Male Student

A 32-year-old former middle school teacher in Michigan was sentenced to prison Thursday after admitting to having an ongoing sexual relationship with a 14-year-old male student. Jamee Hiatt was sentenced to three to 20 years along with lifetime monitoring as a sex offender.

Hiatt, who was arrested in January 2016 just one day after she resigned from a teaching position at Woodworth Elementary School in Leslie, Michigan, confessed to having a long-term sexual relationship with the teen that dated back to 2014. During the trial, Jackson County Police Detective Gary Schuette told prosecutors that she engaged in sexual activity with the boy “so many times that he couldn’t begin to tell how many times that there were.”

Hiatt admitted to having sexual relations with the student between May 2014 and January 2016.

Hiatt reportedly also offered the boy a cellphone, money and guardianship in an effort to maintain their relationship. Prosecutors said during the trial that Hiatt even called child protective services on the boy’s family in an attempt to gain custody of him.

She was also accused of giving the student a handgun that was linked to a shooting in Jackson, Michigan.

At her sentencing, Hiatt said she knew her “actions were inexcusable."

“I used my power as a teacher over him. I became out of control, went to a dark place and I changed his life forever,” she said.

There have been a recent string of educators engaging in sexual relationships with students. Minnesota officials recently closed a four-month investigation involving a teacher accused of having sex with eight underage boys. The teacher had killed himself and his husband, who had also allegedly engaged in sexual relations with the students, in Washington state in August.