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March 30, 2011
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Loveland CO March 30 2011 Former Mountain View High School instructional coach Courtney Bowles pleaded guilty Monday to one felony count of child abuse resulting in serious bodily injury.
As part of a plea deal, three original charges of sex assault on a child by one in a position of trust, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and sex assault with more than a 10-year age difference were dropped.
Bowles, 31, of Fort Collins was arrested Jan. 21 after she was found in a car parked at North Lake Park in Loveland having sex with a 16-year-old male student.
As stipulated in the plea deal, Bowles will face 10 years of supervised sex offender probation, Prosecutor Renee Doak said.
Additionally, she must register as a sex offender and could face some jail time, said Linda Jensen, spokeswoman for the Larimer County District Attorney’s Office. Judge Stephen Howard will sentence Bowles on May 9.
Since her arrest, Bowles has been barred from seeing her two children. She is allowed to talk to them on the phone. Her husband is filing for divorce.
In accepting the plea deal, Howard ordered that any mental evaluations of Bowles be conducted and supplemented before sentencing. At the time of her arrest, Bowles was working as an instructional coach for the Thompson School District, meaning she helped teachers improve at their jobs. She wasn’t working directly with students.
She has a teacher’s license in social studies, according to the Colorado Department of Education.
Bowles resigned following her arrest. She has no prior criminal record.
As part of a plea deal, three original charges of sex assault on a child by one in a position of trust, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and sex assault with more than a 10-year age difference were dropped.
Bowles, 31, of Fort Collins was arrested Jan. 21 after she was found in a car parked at North Lake Park in Loveland having sex with a 16-year-old male student.
As stipulated in the plea deal, Bowles will face 10 years of supervised sex offender probation, Prosecutor Renee Doak said.
Additionally, she must register as a sex offender and could face some jail time, said Linda Jensen, spokeswoman for the Larimer County District Attorney’s Office. Judge Stephen Howard will sentence Bowles on May 9.
Since her arrest, Bowles has been barred from seeing her two children. She is allowed to talk to them on the phone. Her husband is filing for divorce.
In accepting the plea deal, Howard ordered that any mental evaluations of Bowles be conducted and supplemented before sentencing. At the time of her arrest, Bowles was working as an instructional coach for the Thompson School District, meaning she helped teachers improve at their jobs. She wasn’t working directly with students.
She has a teacher’s license in social studies, according to the Colorado Department of Education.
Bowles resigned following her arrest. She has no prior criminal record.
