Teacher sentenced for sexually assaulting male student

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July 3, 2015 1:26 AM

A former Spanish teacher at Bishop Foley Catholic High School in Madison Heights is to be sentenced Thursday in Macomb County as part of a larger investigation in which she is accused of sexually assaulting a male student over a period of several months.

Kathryn Ronk, 30, of Birmingham who was to be sentenced on Wednesday but wasn't brought to Macomb County Circuit Court by the Michigan Department of Corrections. Her sentencing was adjourned to July 15, but then reset for Thursday, according to court records.

She pleaded guilty to two counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct.

She was sentenced in March six to 15 years in prison in Oakland County. She originally was charged with five counts of criminal sexual conduct, including rape, in Oakland County, but pleaded guilty to two counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct.

She was also charged in Macomb County because some of the sexual contact took place in the then 15-year-old boy's Macomb Township home and in a parked car in Sterling Heights.

She was facing three counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and one count each of child sexually abusive activity and selling or furnishing alcohol to a minor in Macomb County.

The Macomb County charges also accused her of enticing the student to exchange sexually explicit images and providing the victim with alcohol, the Prosecutor's Office previously said.

The acts in Oakland County occurred in her classroom at the school, authorities had said. She initiated the contact with the student in December 2013 with the assaults starting in January 2014. The Sterling Heights incident occurred in January 2014 and the Macomb Township assault occurred in April 2014.

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