A former Nova Scotia school teacher has avoided jail time for sex crimes involving two former students, but the province's highest court has also upheld the convictions against her despite her mental illness. Hood was a Grade 6 teacher at Thorburn Consolidated School near New Glasgow at the time of her crimes. Hood, a Grade 6 teacher at Thorburn Consolidated School at the time, also admitted to performing oral sex on one of them. Some of the offences for which Hood was convicted carried a mandatory minimum sentence of one year in jail. The Crown had argued the judge didn't have the authority to override the mandatory minimum and public denunciation required a period of incarceration.

Source: CBC News February 22, 2018 19:18 UTC