The former Grade 6 teacher at Thorburn Consolidated School in Thorburn, N.S., appealed her conviction on several grounds, including that Atwood neglected to consider all the relevant evidence from defence witnesses.

Carolyn Amy Hood, who sexually abused one teenage male student and sent sexually explicit texts to another has been sentenced to 15 months of house arrest.

Carolyn Amy Hood was found guilty in April of sexual interference, sexual exploitation and two counts of luring minors over the Internet for a sexual purpose.