Ex-teacher who admitted to sex acts with 5 teens sentenced

A former Corona high school teacher who admitted to 16 felony counts related to sex acts with five underage male students was sentenced Friday to three years in prison. Summer Michelle Hansen, 32, appeared in court in Riverside in connection to crimes that occurred in 2012 and 2013. She admitted to those counts in at a Feb. 27 court hearing, a spokesman for the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office said. Because Hansen entered a plea directly to the judge and not through a plea agreement with a prosecutor, she had to plead guilty to all counts she was charged with, DA’s office spokesman John Hall confirmed. Hansen was a special education teacher at Centennial High School in Corona when the crimes occurred. The victims were not her students but attended the school and were under 18, the DA’s office said in March 2014, when Hansen waived her right to a preliminary hearing. The Corona-Norco Unified School District alerted police to an inappropriate relationship between Hansen and a former student in June 2013, prompting her arrest, authorities said at the time. The complaint against her stated she had sex with students in her classroom, in a utility room at the school, in a car and at a student’s home. She was also accused of sending naked pictures of herself to teen students.