A former New Albany-Floyd County Consolidated School Corp. substitute teacher pleaded guilty to two federal child pornography charges.
Jennifer Jacobi, 35, of Greenville, was charged this summer in U.S. District Court on 10 counts of producing child pornography and one count of possessing child pornography. The material dealt with children under age 12, according to federal court records.
Jacobi signed a plea agreement in October stipulating that she committed two of the child pornography producing charges against her, and agreed to accept a sentence of 35 years in prison. U.S. District Judge John D. Tinder accepted her guilty plea in court Thursday and set a sentencing date for Dec. 20.
Jacobi was sentenced last month in Harrison County Circuit Court to serve 66 years in prison in another plea agreement. The situation had nothing to do with her substitute teaching, said Harrison Deputy Prosecutor Michelle MarQuand in an October interview.
Jacobi had a long-term relationship with a known pedophile who at one time was incarcerated in Maine, and she procured a child for him during his visit to Harrison County. The man, Richard Prado, committed suicide before being tried on those charges.
Jacobi admitted fondling and performing oral sex upon the child, whose gender MarQuand declined to identify. The charges say the child was under age 14, and her plea agreement convicted her of two class A felonies — child molesting and conspiracy to commit child molesting — and a class C felony child molesting charge.
If Tinder accepts the sentence outlined in the federal plea agreement on Dec. 20, Jacobi’s federal sentence would run concurrently with the one in Harrison County. One of Jacobi’s attorneys, Nicholas Haverstock of Corydon, said in a recent interview this could give her a chance to get out of prison before she dies.
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