A former West High School teacher accused of sexually abusing a student in 2017 was found guilty last week of seven felonies.

A 3rd District Court jury specifically convicted Sterrett Oney Neale on Thursday of three first-degree felony counts of object rape, two first-degree felony counts of forcible sodomy and two second-degree felony counts of forcible sexual abuse, the Salt Lake County district attorney’s office announced Monday.

The victim, who was 17 at the time, alleged a “pattern” of abuse that began in March 2017, the district attorney’s office explained in a news release.

Initially, the former creative writing and language arts teacher would “kiss and sexually” abuse the victim in his classroom after school, the news release stated.

In August of that year, Neale began having t

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