A Catholic school teacher who admitted to having sex with a teenage student said she was ‘not asking for forgiveness’ on Tuesday as she was sentenced for her crimes.
Emily Nutley, 43, pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual battery for her affair with a 17-year-old pupil at St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, which lasted from November to December 2023.
The mother-of-three then returned to Hamilton County Common Pleas Court on Tuesday, when she finally addressed the inappropriate relationship.
‘There is no excuse for what I did,’ Nutley admitted, according to WLWT. ‘I crossed a line that should never have been crossed.
‘I think every day about the impact of my actions,’ she continued. ‘I’ve lost my husband, my home, my friends. I’ve caused harm and embarrassment to my children.’
She then told Judge Jennifer Branch that she is now ‘engaging with professionals who will help me understand [my] choices’ after previously claiming that her husband’s ‘neglect’ drove her to pursue relations with the teen.
‘I am not asking for forgiveness because I have not earned it,’ the former teacher said.
But Branch said she was hoping to hear more of an apology from Nutley, as she sentenced the one-time teacher to three years behind bars.

Emily Nutley, 43, was sentenced to serve three years behind bars on Tuesday

The former Catholic school teacher, who once also taught at an elementary school, pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual battery over a physical relationship with a 17-year-old pupil at St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati, Ohio in April as part of a plea deal
‘I was looking for you to say that you acknowledge the harm that you caused this young man… You pretty much ruined the rest of his high school career,’ the judge said, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
‘I didn’t see it. I didn’t hear it.’
Her comments came after the teen addressed the situation himself in a letter read in court by Assistant Prosecutor Elyse Deters.
He said the entire situation ‘altered my high school experience and my life.’
‘When the abuse started, I didn’t know I was being taken advantage of,’ the teen claimed, noting that eventually Nutley ‘would not leave me alone.
‘She told me she would kill herself if I ended it. Even at sporting events, people yell her name at me,’ the victim claimed.
He also said that the abuse ‘left me confused, lacking self worth and depressed.
‘I can’t get away from this. I have a hard time trusting people, especially authority figures.’
In separate remarks, the victim’s father said his dream of going to college on an athletic scholarship was destroyed by Nutley’s abuse.

Nutley finally addressed the inappropriate relationship, which lasted from November to December 2023, in court on Tuesday
The teenager first met Nutley in 2023 through a program she ran for academically struggling students at the Catholic high school.
They began texting after school hours last autumn, and she sent him nude selfies and at least nine ‘sexually explicit messages’.
In one text message Nutley sent the boy the afternoon of November 30, 2023, she wrote: ‘What would be wild is that when the whole school is at Mass, I give you the best f**k of your life in my office,’ the Enquirer reports.
Nutley and the boy wound up having sex several times from November through December 2023, at least once in her office at the all-boys school after hours.
She also paid the teen an ‘allowance’ of $100 a month, would buy him food and at least once plied him with the answers to an exam.
But by March of that year, the teenager wanted the relationship to end and asked to be released from the learning center’s help.
Soon after, the boy’s grades plummeted and he was failing three classes.
Meanwhile, prosecutors said, Nutley continued texting the student.

She noted that she has lost her husband, Jonathan, and ’caused harm and embarrassment to my children’
Eventually, rumors also started to circulate at the $18,130-a-year school that Nutley was having sex with the student, and on October 8, 2024, the teen met with school administrators and reported at least four sexual encounters with the teacher.
Nutley was fired as soon as the criminal investigation began, which led to her being indicted by a Hamilton County grand jury and arrested on October 28.
St Xavier said at the time it ‘believed this case to be an isolated incident.’
A few weeks after the indictment, Nutley’s husband, Jonathan Nutley, also filed for divorce, prompting his wife to accuse him of ‘gross neglect of duty and extreme cruelty’ in her legal response, TMZ reported.
The disgraced educator has two daughters and a son, the eldest of whom is a junior at a different high school and only slightly younger than the victim.
She previously taught at Madeira Elementary School, also in Cincinnati, and posted photos of her work and students there on social media.
Nutley then joined the Jesuit school ahead of the 2021-22 year and was listed as the ‘multi-tiered systems support coordinator’ in the student handbook.

In addition to serving three years in prison, Nutley will serve a five year probation and will be required to register as a Tier III sex offender every 90 days for the rest of her life
In pre-sentencing documents, prosecutors argued Nutley ‘preyed on the most defenseless person she could find’ as her job at the school entailed identifying at-risk students and monitoring their progress.
The prosecutors asked for at least a five-year prison sentence, while the victim’s family asked Branch to sentence her to 10 years behind bars.
But Nutley’s defense argued she has already received threats from prison and has taken significant steps toward rehabilitation.
Her lawyers also noted that she has already lost a lot, and said that a doctor who examined Nutley described her as a ‘broken woman’ plagued by mental health and substance abuse issues.
Now, in addition to serving three years in prison, Nutley will serve a five year probation.
She will also be required to register as a Tier III sex offender every 90 days for the rest of her life.
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