JERSEY CITY - A Jersey City woman who was a teacher in Newark was sentenced to five years in prison this morning for having sex at her Bergen Avenue home with a 14-year-old male student on numerous occasions.

"Your honor she obliterated the line, she did not just cross it," Hudson County Assistant Prosecutor Lynne Seborowski said of 29-year-old Elyse Cromwell at the sentencing hearing before Hudson County Superior Court Judge Joseph Isabella.

"She met the victim when he was 12-years-old and for the next two years she groomed him, she gained his trust, and at the age of 14, she started sending him texts saying she wanted to have sex with him, said Seborowski, adding that Cromwell plied the boy with marijuana and told him she heard he was well endowed.

On Jan. 31, 2014, Cromwell was arrested on charges she had sex with the boy on multiple occasions while serving as his "homeroom and English teacher," according to the criminal complaint. That complaint says she "performed prohibited sexual acts upon" the boy, who was 15-years-old at the time of her arrest.

Before being sentenced, Cromwell told the court, "I'm really sorry for any pain or harm I caused... I never meant to hurt anyone and I will try to take this sentencing and make it positive."

The report on Cromwell's psychological evaluation say factors leading to her offenses included low self-esteem, loneliness and the influence of marijuana.

"She doesn't understand the damage she has done to my brother," said the victim's sister at the hearing, adding that her brother developed a drug problem and was "lying and stealing ...He is a kid, a minor. She should have known better than that."

Defense attorney Brian Neary told the court Cromwell had never been in trouble before and praised her for taking up the noble profession of teaching and dedicating herself to an experimental school in Newark.

But Neary acknowledged, "Whatever that relationship was, it was she, as the adult, that had crossed the line."

News12 has reported that Cromwell taught at the Early College High School.

At the end of the hearing, Cromwell was handcuffed and led away by sheriff's officers. Many of her friends and former co-workers in court were tearful as she was taken away.

In February, Cromwell pleaded guilty to sexual assault and official misconduct. The misconduct charge has a mandatory five-year minimum sentence. She will be eligible for parole after two years.