The Gridley Unified School District in Butte County is facing the possibility of a civil lawsuit from a teacher having sex with a student. 46-year-old Michelle Solis pleaded no contest and was sentenced in July to 4 years in state prison. Gridley Police began investigating in October of last year after sexually explicit photos had been circulating among students that showed Solis. She had apparently sent the 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 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. The attorney representing that teenage victim in the civil suit claims the district did not do enough to protect the boy and that administrators had long been aware of Solis’ inappropriate behavior.
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