Ex-teacher assistant to serve 20 years for child molesting

Shannon Alicia Schmieder, a former teacher assistant at Jefferson Parkway Elementary School, Coweta County, Georgia, has been  sentenced by Coweta Superior Court Judge Jack Kirby to "40 years in prison, to serve 20." as a result of her guilty plea  to engaging in sex with a 14-year-old boy.

Police learned about the  the alleged sexual relationship between Schmieder and her minor victim  after the boy's parents discovered suspicious messages on their son's computer and brought the computer to the Coweta County Sheriff's Office. A forensic investigation of the computer uncovered more computer messages that showed an explicit sexual relationship had occurred between the teen and the teacher's assistant.