The former Columbia Public Schools teacher who admitted to having sexual contact with a student is avoiding prison time.
A Boone County judge on Monday sentenced Sean Diestel to five years’ probation. He suspended the four-year prison sentence.
Diestel, 32, was working at Columbia Area Career Center when he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student in late 2017. He pleaded guilty to felony sexual contact with a student in May.