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Calgary teacher convicted of sexual assault after inappropriate relationship with 16-year-old student

Calgary courts centre. File photo. Global News/File photo

A Calgary Catholic school teacher, accused of having a relationship with a student more than a decade ago, has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison.

Edwin Cay Arias was sentenced on Dec. 5 for sexual assault after pleading guilty.

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A former female student at Bishop McNally High School went to police in January 2017 to say she had been in a relationship with a teacher at the school between 2007 and 2009.

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She was just 16 when the relationship began.

 

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