Former Johnson County Gay teacher Jeremy John Way is sentenced for sexual contact with two 14-year-old boys

 I think this is the third Gay teacher in the last 30 days that has gotten caught having sex with boys.  Usually these stories are squashed.  But, I see a new trend.

Kansas City Star reports Jeremy John Way was more than a science teacher to hundreds of Johnson County students.

He was a mentor and role model, a man whose influence went beyond the classroom to inspire them in many aspects of their young lives, his supporters say.

But that career of good work could not undo the “horrific life-changing mistake” that landed Way in a Johnson County courtroom Tuesday morning.

And it did not dissuade a judge from sentencing Way to four years and seven months in prison for having sexual contact with two 14-year-olds after he answered adult ads the teens had placed online.

Way, 43, an award-winning science teacher and Science Olympiad coach at St. James Academy in Lenexa, pleaded guilty in November to two counts of criminal sodomy involving the boys.

In each case, the boys initially claimed to be 18. And although Way knew they were younger after meeting them, he was unaware of their actual age, according to court documents.

While emphasizing that he was not minimizing Way’s actions or the harm he caused, his attorney, Paul Morrison, asked the judge to consider a lesser sentence of three years in prison.

Way already has lost the career that he loved and will have to register for life as a sex offender once released from prison, he said.

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