Maggie Laughlin

Maggie Laughlin, the 23-year-old former Mentor math teacher sentenced in August to three years in prison for having oral sex with a ninth-grade student, is asking to be released early from prison.

A hearing has been scheduled for 1:45 p.m. Wednesday (November 5, 2008). Less than three months after Lake County Common Pleas Judge Paul Mitrovich sentenced her, he will decide whether she will be released.

Laughlin, of WIllowick, was a first-year teacher at Shore Junior High School in Mentor. She admitted to performing oral sex on the student the last eight days of school. She pleaded guilty to eight counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a juvenile. The maximum sentence would have been 18 months for each count.

Laughlin lost her teaching license and will have to register her address every six months for the next 25 years.

When Mitrovich sentenced her Aug. 27, he said, “As a teacher you were placed in a position of trust. You showed uncaring selfishness on your part.”

I certainly hope that this judge doesn’t even consider an early release for Maggie.  There’s absolutely no reason why she should she be eligible for an early-release.