A Florida dance teacher has been sentenced to 26 years in prison after she was found guilty for a raft of historic sex charges.
Lauren Debenedetta, 41, who was sentenced on Tuesday (local time), was charged with four counts of "lewd and lascivious battery on a minor," Fox 4 reports.
In July, she was found guilty of all charges at trial.
An arrest affidavit cited by Fox 4 says that for several weeks, Debenedetta was in an "inappropriate" relationship with one of her students.
During dance class, she would reportedly ask the teen to come into her office and "touch her private parts".
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The offending happened in 2016.
"Following her prison sentence, Debenedetta will be on five years of sex offender probation and she has also been designated a sexual offender," Fox 4 reports.
