PHOENIX – A former Buckeye teacher has been sentenced to nine months in jail in a sex abuse case involving a teenage student.
Aside from the jail sentence, Joshua Joel Jacobsen, 32, was placed on lifetime probation during an appearance last week in Maricopa County Superior Court.
Jacobsen was a Liberty Elementary School District teacher. He pleaded guilty Aug. 21 to charges of sexual abuse and luring a minor for sexual exploitation.
Jacobsen was arrested last year by Buckeye police after a girl reported he began abusing her when she was a 13-year-old student in late 2004 at Liberty Elementary.
Police said the girl told authorities after taking a high school class focused on "good touch/bad touch" and sexual abuse.
Jacobsen taught physical education at Rainbow Valley Elementary School before transferring to Liberty Elementary in 2003.
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He also was a Valley Youth Soccer League coach.
The school and Buckeye police conducted a follow-up investigation and found no additional victims, according to Andy Rogers, the Liberty School District superintendent.
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