Teacher Philip Padilla Gets 12 Years for Having Sex with a 14-Year-Old Student
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
In Van Meter, Iowa, Philip Padilla, 40, was sentenced to to 12 years in prison for having sex with a 14-year-old female student. The social studies instructor and boys’ basketball coach was sentenced to 10 years in prison for third-degree sexual abuse, and an additional two years for sexual exploitation by a counselor, therapist or school employee.
But this wasn’t the first time Padilla sexually assaulted a student. In 1993, he was with four counts of sexaul assault on a 15-year-old female student in Bethany, Missouri. However, he was acquitted of the charges.
And if you don’t think these relationships are damaging, just read what the victim and her mother told Padilla in court:

