Meredith Kane, a former Lawrence High School teacher, walks to court in July with her attorney, James Rumsey in this Journal-World file photo.
A judge this afternoon revoked bond for a former Lawrence High School teacher, who has admitted to having sex with a student.
Douglas County District Judge Stephen Six ruled that Meredith Kane, 24, must remain in jail until her sentencing Oct. 29.
She was arrested and booked into jail Tuesday and now faces an additional misdemeanor charge of violating a protective order. Based on a condition of her $15,000 bond, she was ordered not have contact with the victim or witnesses in the case.
Kane pleaded guilty in July to one count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child. The acts occurred between August 2006 and March this year with a male student who was 15 at the time.
According to a motion Assistant District Attorney Angela Wilson filed, family friends of the now-16-year-old victim reported to police on Sunday they saw the boy getting out of a car driven by Kane. The boy told a police detective he had been with Kane five times since her guilty plea, according to the motion.
During this afternoon's hearing, Kane's attorney James Rumsey introduced a letter that he said the victim had written to Kane.
"It doesn't suggest that there wasn't contact, but I want to make it very clear that the initiation was on his part, not my client's," Rumsey said.
But Six said the affidavit filed by prosecutors documented Kane initiated multiple instances of telephone and in-person contact and that it was Kane's responsibility as the adult to honor her bond agreement and a court order.
Kane entered the court room in custody wearing a green jail jumpsuit. Rumsey entered a not guilty plea on the misdemeanor charge, and Six set that trial for Oct. 2.
Kane already faces between five and 20 years in prison for the aggravated indecent liberties conviction. Rumsey has planned to ask for a lesser sentence.
Douglas County District Attorney Charles Branson said the misdemeanor conviction for violating a protective order carries a sentence up to one year in jail. He said the recent arrest probably won't greatly affect the sentencing on the felony conviction because prosecutors have sought a prison term since the early days of the case.
"With the bond being revoked, we're asking that start much sooner," Branson said.
After suspending Kane after the arrest, the Lawrence school board voted not to renew the first-year English teacher's contract in May.
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thetagger (anonymous) says…
Oy.
Unix_Admin (anonymous) says…
How stupid is this gal? Find someone your own age to get down with!!!
ASBESTOS (anonymous) says…
GEEZ! The buble in the level is a little to the left in this gal isn't it?
several sandwiches short of a picinic!
srj (anonymous) says…
Heck, he's 16, can't they get married now?
oldgoof (anonymous) says…
She had her chance on bond and screwed it up. She gets jumpsuits.
waydownsouth (anonymous) says…
If she had sex with my son she would not need and attorney. Maybe casket and a head stone.
purplesage (anonymous) says…
So she really hasn't learned a thing. I am out of sympathy for her and feel kid and his parents. It is maddening when teens won't do what is right and there are adults out there facilitating their bad choices.
bearded_gnome (anonymous) says…
oh, too bad this didn't happen in Arkansas, since at the time it happened *they could have married*!.
glad to see none of that " HEY! he scored with the teacher krap! this is just as harmful to an underage boy as to an underage girl, only in more subtle psychological ways.
but yeah, compare if the teacher were male then there'd be people out to hang the guy, etc if he did that with a girl student. seems our society is still to easy on female teachers using there place of authority to have sex with a male. btw, this IS definitely sexist and it helps the female perps.
hope the kid is getting the appropriate sort of counseling.
George_Braziller (anonymous) says…
As for Toby Young, and Meredith Kane -- A year before she died in 1993 a dear friend of mine wrote on a small post-it-note "Remember: Lust makes you stupid" still have that note. Seems to apply here.
maxcrabb (anonymous) says…
Why is this "breaking" news? How is this more relevant RIGHT now than in a couple months when the trial is over with and everyone learns the verdict.
It's only relevant to those involved in the trial.
Very lame and borderline gossip.
Pywacket (anonymous) says…
GeorgeBraziller~ Condolences on your loss of a very insightful friend.
maxipaddicrabbipanties~ It's relevant. It's news. I suppose our comments are gossip, but the article isn't. Maybe public commentary is one more incentive for people to live a respectable life. I know I wouldn't want the public embarrassment of having my actions hashed over by my fellow citizens.
Informed (anonymous) says…
There's not going to be a trial, maxcrabb. She already pleaded 'guilty'. Her sentencing is in October.
bearded_gnome (anonymous) says…
wrongo! there's a new charge not yet pled to.
Gmoney23 (anonymous) says…
Since i can't swear on this. people that are say this crap. SHUT UP!!!! you don't even know her
George_Braziller (anonymous) says…
Pywacket - "Remember: Lust Makes You Stupid." We have all been there, you me, and everyone who has posted. We've all done stupid things' You can flare your wings over your piety -- but "Remember: Lust Makes you Stupid."
Pywacket (Anonymous) says:
maxipaddicrabbipanties~ It's relevant. It's news. I suppose our comments are gossip, but the article isn't. Maybe public commentary is one more incentive for people to live a respectable life. I know I wouldn't want the public embarrassment of having my actions hashed over by my fellow citizens
maxcrabb (anonymous) says…
Pywacket, did we go to school together?
That was like every nickname since grade school given to me rolled into one.
Pywacket (anonymous) says…
max! Who knows? If that's your real name, it's awesome! Sounds like a comic book character:
By day, he was mild-mannered Max Crabb, window washer. But at night, when the sordid city came alive with crime, he scuttled into a dank PortaPotty, only to emerge seconds later as CrabMan, Upholder of Righteousness and Pincher of Ne'er-do-wells.