A former Connecticut special education teacher could face up to five years in prison after she admitted to having sex with two of her students. Laura Calladio Ramos, 32, pleaded no contest on Monday to sexually assaulting two special education students and violating a protective order.
Superior Court Judge Robert Devlin told Ramos on Monday that he would sentence her to a maximum five years in prison when she is sentenced on January 25.
Ramos, a former teacher at Central High School in Bridgeport, could have faced up to 25 years in prison if she was convicted during trial.
‘Do you think the state has sufficient evidence that it does expose you to the risk of being convicted,’ Devlin asked Ramos, according to the Connecticut Post.
‘Probably,’ she replied.
Ramos was first arrested after an 18-year-old special education student told police he had sex with his teacher between December 2016 to April 2017.
The teacher told police she had sex ‘a handful of times’ with this student, most frequently in her car.
A second special education student then told police that he had sex with Ramos, who resigned following her first arrest, multiple times.
The student told police that he had gone to a restaurant with Ramos in April 2017 for dinner before they had sex in her car in the parking lot.
That same month, the student said Ramos took him to a restaurant after telling him that her husband – who has since divorced her and won custody of their two-year-old son – didn’t want to have sex with her.
The student said he and Ramos then went into the restaurant’s ‘electrical room’ and had sex.
Ramos later sent him a text saying it was the best sex she had ever had, the student told investigators.
The teacher was arrested a second time after she was pulled over by police while driving her first victim to the beach.