HAWAII
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A teacher who sexually assaulted a student while he working at Sacred Hearts Academy will never teach again.
William Plourde was sentenced Wednesday to a year in prison for the assaults.
The victim was a student at Sacred Hearts when the assaults happened in 2013 and has had to deal with the emotional scars his assaults left behind.
“Mr. Plourde was a teacher that I trusted. Instead of a teacher who taught me right, he left me with a burden. He left me with a burden of being a sexual assault,” the victim said. “Teachers are not supposed to tell their students, ‘Don’t tell anyone or else I will get in trouble.’ And Mr. Plourde did.”
“As parents, we expect teachers to be role models and we trust that they will do the right thing, not the wrong thing. Mr. Plourde is not a role model and he did wrong.” said the victim’s mother.
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