A recently concluded case involving a female teacher in South Carolina having sexual relations with underage students has put the spotlight back on what one publication has labeled a "sexpidemic" occurring on America's school campuses.

After repeatedly having sex with two 17-year-old male students, a 36-year-old former high school honors English teacher and mother of two will receive no jail time. Despite pleading guilty before a judge in October to two counts of sexual battery against a 16- to 17-year-old student, former Dreher High School teacher Kinsley Wentzky was convicted of the crimes – but not for aggravated force or coercion, according to WIS News 10.

Instead of imprisonment, the seven-year English teacher from Forest Acres, South Carolina, was sentenced to a three-year probation period, which is slated to end on October 27, 2017. The ruling by the judge handed Wentzky a five-year suspended prison sentence – which interprets to no jail time.

Back in May 2012, Wentzky admitted that she had been involved in a sexually "intimate" relationship with one of the 17-year-old students.

Repeat offender

Before the convictions, the middle-aged mother was arrested twice in Columbia and Forest Acres, South Carolina, by police – who charged her with sexual battery on both occasions.

Numerous reports indicate that Wentzky engaged in sexual intercourse with two teenage students multiple times at local residences not far from the high school.

Shortly after the charges were brought to light, Wentzky was placed on paid administrative leave. Subsequently, in January 2013, the South Carolina State Board of Education suspended her teaching certificate. Not long thereafter, the Richland County School District terminated Wentzky from her teaching position at Dreher High School.

As a safeguard to minors in the community and outlying areas where Wentzky will be held on probation, she is being placed on the Central Registry of Child Abuse/Neglect. Another condition of her lenient sentence requires her to undergo mental health counseling as a deterrent to her repeated statutory rape tendencies.

More commonplace than one might think

Even though cases such as Wentzky's may come as a shock to many, female teachers having sex with students is much more commonplace than most parents realize.

Back in October, WND published an updated version of "The Big List: Female Teachers with Students," which provides a detailed listing of 268 female sexual predator teachers, complete with photos of the sex offenders and accounts of their alleged or proven sexual offenses with minor students.

WND calls the listing the Internet's most comprehensive account of women sexual predators on school campuses across America.

Calling the current situation taking place in America's schools a "sexpidemic," WND brought light to the dire situations children are exposed to on and off school campuses from coast to coast. Even though 269 – including Kinsley Wentzky – might seem like a relatively small number, it only represents the cases that have been detected and publicized.

With Wentzky representing just one of South Carolina's more than 10,700 public school teachers among some 680,000 students at state-run schools within the Palmetto State, many fear that such crimes are anything but isolated incidents, especially nationwide, where nearly 50 million public school students are under the care of well over half a million teachers.

Each of the featured 258 documented female teachers within America's schools on WND's list have either been charged or convicted of sexually assaulting students sometime during their tenures as on-campus instructors of schoolchildren.