A longtime Butte County middle school teacher who admitted to having sex with a young student has been sentenced to prison. Police in Gridley began investigating in October of last year after sexually explicit photos had been circulating among students that showed Michelle Solis. She had apparently sent four photos to her 14-year-old student after friending him on Instagram in the weeks leading up to the Sycamore Junior High School graduation in 2021. In April she admitted that on Graduation Day she had sex with the boy in her locked classroom. Solis had been a teacher at the Gridley School for 20 years. After entering a plea of no contest she was sentenced Thursday to the maximum of 4 years in state prison.
-Steve Gibson