A former Windsor teacher has been sentenced to one year in jail for having a sexual relationship with a student.
43-year-old Christina Albini will also be on probation for three years after earlier pleading guilty to sexual interference.
She apologized in court for getting too emotionally attached to the victim.
"This was not his fault," she said.
For about seven months in 2016, Albini was in a relationship with the 14-year old boy who was a student where she taught at Christ the King School.
The two had sex in Albini's south Windsor home.
Outside the Windsor courthouse, defence lawyer Pat Ducharme says Albini takes full responsibility for her actions.
"She is frightened, the prospect of going to jail, she was a teacher for many years and a responsible person in the community. It is a terrifying thought to go into custody," he says.
The judge gave Albini credit for pleading guilty in the case and preventing the victim from having to testify.
"He is such a classy, young man," said Ducharme. "That is part of the reason we wanted him to know from day one that he was never going to be put through any further trauma. He wasn't going to have to testify and I think that was meaningful to him."
Albini and the boy had professed their love for one another.
The boy did not enter a victim impact statement and Ducharme believes it is because he didn't want Albini to go to jail.