No jail time for for Citrus County teacher

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Lilley is allowed no contact with anyone younger than 18.

A former Lecanto High School teacher accused of having a sexual relationship with a student will serve a reduced sentence after pleading no contest Thursday to a charge of lewd and lascivious battery.

Citrus County Judge Ric Howard ordered 36-year-old Amy Lilley to serve two years of community service and eight years of sex offender probation for her relationship with the 15-year old-girl. Also, Lilly's teaching license has been permanently revoked, she will be under a mandatory curfew, and she will receive sex offender treatment and counseling.

Howard said Lilley received the reduced sentence because the girl's father didn't want to press charges. The vocational teacher and softball coach was arrested Nov. 1 after the girl told deputies about their three-month relationship that began in September. Lilley said it was consensual.

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