Judge on teacher who had sex with student: 'What young man would not jump on that candy?'

Former Pennsylvania high school teacher Erica Ann Ginnetti pleaded guilty to having sex with a male student. She was sentenced April 3, 2015, to 30 days in jail and 60 days house arrest. (Photo via County of Montgomery, Pa., District Attorney)

A former Pennsylvania teacher whose flirtations allegedly led to sex with a 17-year-old male student presented an irresistible temptation, a judge told her.

Erica Ann Ginnetti, 35, was sentenced Friday to 30 days in jail and 60 days house arrest after pleading guilty in December to "institutional sexual assault" for having sex with a student and disseminating sexually explicit material, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

The inappropriate relationship began in spring 2013, when Ginnetti approached the boy at a school dance and began flirting with him, the paper reported. The two began daily exchanges of cellphone messages, photos and videos and eventually had sex in her car in July 2013.

"That is candy to a young man," Judge Garrett D. Page, of Pennsylvania's Montgomery County Court, told Ginnetti at her sentencing.

According to the Daily Mail, Page asked the remorseful Ginnetti, "What young man would not jump on that candy?"

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