Teacher Gets 12 Years in Jail After Pleading Guilty to 17 Sex-related Felony Charges - Phillip Sutliff

Well, once again the male teachers caught having sex with an underage student gets a stiff sentence, while their female counterparts get probation and community service. The latest revolves around a former English teacher at Arcadia High School who pleaded guilty last week to committing multiple sex crimes involving a 16-year-old female student in his class. Here's more from KNBC:

Phillip Sutliff, 34, pleaded guilty to 17 sex-related felony charges, including sexual intercourse with a person under 18, oral copulation of a person under 18, sodomy of a person under 18, penetration with a foreign object of a person under 18, and sending harmful matter over the internet to seduce a minor, said Deputy District Attorney Philip Wojdak.
Sutliff is expected to be sentenced to 12 years and 8 months in prison Sept. 27. "Our offer in this case is so high because of the severe breach of trust involved in preying on students he was supposed to be protecting and also because of the hundreds of pages of instant messages show a pattern of manipulation and grooming of her," the prosecutor said.
The charges stem from a relationship Sutliff had with one of his students at the high school from 2004 to 2005. A friend of the girl's family found out about it and notified school officials, who in turn told police, Wojdak said.