Former Teacher Sentenced for Trying to Pay for Sex with Children [Video]

A former high school science teacher was sentenced to 10 years in prison this week after pleading guilty to trying to pay for sex with underage girls.

A Department of Justice press release said former University City High School science teacher Sean Stevenson was sentenced Thursday, Sept. 5, after pleading guilty on June 13.

Stevenson, 58, was arrested last October by an undercover officer. The Department of Justice said in a June press release that Stevenson was arrested after he believed he’d succeeded in setting up a meeting to have sex with a 16-year-old girl through another individual. Instead, the individual that Stevenson was texting with was actually an undercover officer who arrested him upon meeting up.

The DOJ said that Stevenson had texted the undercover officer a number of incriminating messages, including: “I don’t suppose you know in[sic] younger girls I could pay u a premium for?”; “I pay u a finders fee and I pay her”; “The younger the better”; and “Just …