Who is Christina Sosbe? Ohio teacher, 29, who had sex with 2 teen boys at hotel faces 54-month jail term
YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO: A former teacher from Salem, Ohio, Christina Sosbe has been charged and arrested for having sex with students. Christina, 29, surrendered to authorities in Lincoln County after she was arraigned for molesting her students. Sosbe is now looking at felony charges. She has been accused of engaging in sexual activities with at least two 16-year-old students at a hotel in Trumbull County, Ohio three years ago in 2018.
According to the charging documents, Sosbe violated her position as a teacher by having sex with at least two 16-year-old students. The alleged incidents took place on December 8 and December 9, 2018, according to the indictment. She pleaded not guilty to the charges before Judge Peter J Kontos. A pretrial hearing has been set for June 7. Sosbe enrolled in Lincoln County’s pretrial release program after a North Carolina judge set her free after the former teacher posted bond. A pretrial release program allows defendants out on bail as they await trial while subjecting them to random drug tests.
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The Tribune Chronicle reports that Sosbe was saddled with a $25,000 bond after she turned herself in after being indicted with three counts of sexual battery for allegedly sexually abusing her students.
Who is Christina Sosbe?
A former teacher for a Mahoning County program at Choffin Career and Technical Center in Youngstown, Sosbe worked for an organization called Pace headquartered in Choffin, Ohio, through which, she was employed as a teacher in the said school. After the alleged charges, her teaching license was permanently revoked last year. Sosbe lived in Salem before moving to North Carolina.
WFMJ reports that if found guilty of the said charges, Christina Sosbe could be put away for a maximum of 54 months.
This news follows reports of an Ohio high school Spanish teacher accused of sexual battery has been placed on administrative leave. Corissa McCalister, 21, of Steubenville, a teacher at Central Catholic High School in Steubenville, was arrested in April and charged with two counts of sexual battery. According to Harrison County Sheriff’s Office, the mother of the alleged victim, a student at the high school, told school staff about the allegations. Harrison County Sheriff Joe Myers said the main incident occurred March 30, 2021, at the Harrison County Fairgrounds after McCalister drove the 15-year-old male student home from a track meet.
Myers alleged that McCalister parked at the Harrison County Fairgrounds in Cadiz and had sex with the juvenile. McCalister is an assistant track coach and head cross-country coach at the school.