Teacher, 28, jailed for FIVE YEARS for having sex with her students at home as husband vows to stand by her after telling court how they liked to engage in orgies

Brittni Colleps, 28, met the teenagers at Kennedale High School in Texas

Boys visited her home numerous times where they had group sex

One student filmed her having sex with others



Video did not show her face but a distinctive tattoo on her back

She 'modelled lingerie for the students and showed off her sex toys'



All students, who were over 18, said they do not consider themselves victims and hid the relationships so she would not get in trouble

Will be sentenced on Friday and faces up to 20 years behind bars



The married high school teacher and mother-of-three was sentenced today to five years behind bars after a jury found her guilty of having sex with five male students, four of whom she had group sex with while being videotaped.



It came after her husband pleaded with the judge for leniency in her sentencing and vowed to stand by his wife after he revealed they liked to have legal group sex as a couple.



A jury took less than an hour to find Brittni Colleps guilty today of the sex crimes after they were shown a video of the orgy with her students in court.

Her husband Christopher Colleps told the court he is working on forgiving his wife and admitted that, though they had engaged in group sex together before, he felt wronged by her actions with the students.

He said: 'I'm asking you to give her probation. It's not my fault or her children's, and taking her away from us is punishing us. Brittni saved my life before I met her. I was doing bad things and when I met Brittni she gave me someone to love and care about.'

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The mother of Brittni Colleps, left, Shirley Beach and her husband Christopher Colleps exits the courtroom, right, after she was sentenced to five years in jail

Despair: Brittni Colleps' mother, Shirley Beach and husband Christopher Colleps, right, listen as Judge Ruben Gonzalez delivers the sentence to the former teacher

Mr Colleps is a soldier stationed at Louisiana’s Fort Polk. He is believed to have been overseas on duty with the U.S. military at the time and their children were also not at the home.

The court heard this week that as well as taking part in the sex tape, Colleps would model lingerie for them and sent them videos of her using sex toys.



The married mother-of-three, met the students while she worked at Kennedale High School in Texas as an English teacher and repeatedly invited them to her home for sex.

The jury took less than an hour to find her guilty on five counts of having an inappropriate relationship between a student and teacher .

Her mother also testified during the sentencing hearing to ask the judge to show some mercy.

Shirley Bush said: ' Have mercy on her as someone who has done nothing wrong except in that time period. Have mercy on her kids they don't understand this.



'She's a generous person. When I went through cancer she was seven months pregnant and she shaved her head. She is a loving daughter, a loving wife regardless what happened in this situation.'



Christopher Colleps said the couple's children had been staying with his sister for the past week. The couple told their children that their mother "did bad things and might need to go away."

Cahoots: Brittni Colleps speaks with a defense lawyer during her trial in Fort Worth, Texas. She was found guilty today

'Anything goes kind of girl': Colleps allegedly modelled lingerie for the teenagers and showed them sex toys



Emotional: Colleps appears at a press conference where he husband said he was standing by her

The students, who used pseudonyms, all testified against the 28-year-old former teacher - but claimed they had initially hid the relationship because they 'didn't want her to get into trouble'.

Although all of the students she had sex with are 18 or older, the law protects students from a relationship with someone in a superior position.

The teenagers said she contacted them through text messages - with one saying she texted him 100 times in a day - or by 'poking' them on Facebook.

On Thursday, one student, John, said he had been to the teacher's home with friends and on his own and had sex with her.

He told the court that on one occasion, Colleps cooked the students spaghetti, showed them sex toys and then modelled lingerie, the Star-Telegram reported.



The group then went to the back yard where they played a game of truth and dare and one of the boys was dared to have sex with the teacher. They went to her bedroom, where they had sex.

John added that the group had agreed to 'keep it on the low' so Colleps would not get in trouble, and added that he did not want to testify against her, and did not consider himself a victim.

When he was asked what should happen to her, he responded: 'I wouldn't say jail time.'

Another student, Jordan, said he learned from friends that the teacher was having sex with students and he 'just was amazed,' he told the court.

He went to her house twice, where he engaged in group sex, he said. He added that he recorded the last encounter using one of the other boys' phones.

The video, which was shown to the court on Tuesday, showed Colleps having sex with the boys; although her back is to the camera, she is identifiable by a neck tattoo, they said.



Colleps looked away from the screen and appeared uncomfortable when it was shown.

Prosecutor Elizabeth Beach told the court: 'One of the boys, as will happen with high school seniors, had his cellphone with him. And decided that this would be a good thing to get a clip of.'

In court: The teenagers testified this week and said they did not want Colleps to get in trouble

Scene: She met them at Kennedale High School, where she taught English, and began contacting them outside school - texting one 100 times a day or 'poking' them through Facebook

But when school officials asked him about the romp in May 2011, he denied it because ' I didn't want to get her in trouble,' he said. 'I was trying to save her.'

Another student said on Thursday that he had never texted Colleps but had visited her Arlington home with friends, where she performed oral sex on him twice.

The teenager, using the name Richard, said he was 'happy' to be at the home.

Another student said he exchanged more than one hundred messages with her in the one day.

He said: 'She said that she craved… that I had something that she wanted.'

Colleps discussed the number of her sexual partners - eight guys, two girls - her favourite sex toys and described herself as an 'anything goes in sex kind of girl', according to the student.

He said he had sex with Colleps five times, four of which involved more than one student.

Another student testified that after a series of texts from Colleps, she picked him up near his house and drove him to her home, where they had sex two days in a row.

Support: Christopher Colleps was on overseas military duty when his wife allegedly had sex with her students

Standing by his wife: Mr Colleps, pictured with Brittni, was seen consoling her in court

It came after he 'poked' her on Facebook and she poked him back.

Though she initially said she could not send them any pictures for fear she would be jailed, two students said she later texted nude pictures of herself as well as a video of her using a sex toy.

Colleps broke down as her attorney Lex Johnston asked if the state had ever offered her a plea bargain. If found guilty, she could serve a maximum of 20 years behind bars.

She responded they had not and began weeping as she said she never wanted the case to go to trial or have her former students testify against her. The teenagers agreed they did not want to.



'I want you to know I love my wife,' he said on Thursday. 'I have loved my wife since the moment I laid eyes on her over 11 years ago. I will continue to support my wife through this whole, entire ordeal.'



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