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Tabatha Adams
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Zachary Noble
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A former second-grade teacher was sentenced to 30-years in federal prison for producing and manufacturing child pornography. Tabatha Adams, 36, U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Kopf sentenced Tabatha Adams, 36, to prison March 3. In addition to the prison sentence, Kopf also ordered that Adams receive a life term of supervised release following her release from prison and pay a $100 special assessment. Adams pleaded guilty to manufacturing and producing digital pictures of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct. She had been previously convicted in the Ford County District Court, Dodge City, Kan. of aggravated indecent liberties with a child under 14-years-old and sentenced to a life term of imprisonment. The federal sentence is to run concurrently to the state sentence. Adams was a second-grade teacher at the Sacred Heart Cathedral School in Dodge City. She was arrested in December 2007 after the Dodge City police received a computer jump driver containing images that appeared to show her and Falls City, Neb., resident Zachary Noble engaging in sexual activities with an 8-year-old girl. Officials believed the photos were taken at Noble's home in Falls City. Noble received a 30-year sentence in the Nebraska Department of Corrections for his role in the crime. Adams was immediately suspended from Sacred Heart Cathedral School following her arrest. She pleaded guilty to aggravated indecent liberties with a child in March 2008, and additional charges of sexual exploitation of a child and aggravated criminal sodomy were dismissed under a plea agreement with the Ford County Attorney's Office. Adams' stepfather, Edward Zoch of Salina Kan., asked the court to impose the lightest possible sentence. He said Adams had been a model citizen until she got involved with Noble. Zoch said that Adams had gotten involved in a bad situation and didn't know how to get out of it. Before imposing the state sentence in Kansas, District Judge Van Hampton said he grieved with Adams because of the cost that her offense had inflicted on her and her family. Hampton said he hoped the victim would recover not only from the offense, but from being separated from Adams. If Adams is eventually paroled, she must submit to electronic monitoring for the rest of her life. She was barred from contacting the victim until the girl is at least 18.
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