'Teacher of the Year' jailed for hosting sex parties for teenage boys at his house
Jared Anderson was arrested and charged with child sex offences just two months after being honoured in his school's yearbook
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Your support makes all the difference.A man who was named 'Teacher of the Year' at the school where he worked has been jailed for hosting sex parties for teenage boys at his house.
Jared Anderson encouraged boys to play sex games, including at a "bros night" where a sign on the door read "the last one to get naked has to get the first dare".
The 29-year-old English teacher and church leader was honoured in the yearbook of Judson High School in Texas just two months before his arrest in March 2016.
School officials were forced to recall the yearbook and remove a page praising Anderson as 'Teacher of the Year' after he was accused of multiple child sex charges, the San Antonio Express-News reported.
He was suspended and later fired after being charged with four counts of inciting sexual performance by a child and two counts of indecency with a child.
One of the charges related to a party he called a "bros night" at his house on February 12 last year, involving seven boys aged 15 to 17 who were encouraged to take their clothes off and perform sex acts on each other.
Anderson also swapped pictures of his genitals with another 17-year-old boy, San Antonio Police Department said.
He was arrested after two of his victims told authorities.
Judge Stevenn Hilbig sentenced Anderson to 10 years in prison after he admitted the charges at Bexar County's 177th Criminal District Court in San Antonio.
He had faced up to 20 years behind bars but reached a plea agreement last month.
He was also fined $9,000 (£6,900).