- A teacher who admitted having a sexual relationship with
a 13-year-old student was sentenced to five years probation.
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- Pamela Diehl-Moore, 43, pleaded guilty in January to
sexual assault as part of an agreement to avoid a possible three-year prison
sentence.
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- "I really don't see the harm that was done and certainly
society doesn't need to be worried," Judge Bruce Gaeta said Wednesday.
He ordered Diehl-Moore to continue counseling for severe depression.
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- The boy had just completed Diehl-Moore's seventh-grade
class at Woodrow Wilson Middle School in Clifton when the six-month relationship
began in the summer of 1999, authorities said.
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- Gaeta said the boy did not appear to suffer any psychological
damage. "Maybe it was a way for him, once this happened, to satisfy
his sexual needs. People mature at different ages," he said.
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- Diehl-Moore, a divorcee with two daughters, was suspended
following her 2001 arrest and has since lost her teaching license.
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