BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – A former Bayside High School P.E. teacher was sentenced to over 14 years in prison for having a “sexual relationship” with a student in 2018-2019, according to the State Attorney’s Office.
In a release, SAO officials said that the former teacher — Jason Maynor, 44 — pleaded no-contest last month to a charge of sexual battery on a child as part of a plea agreement.
“The victim, who observed Maynor’s plea and sentencing in Viera, agreed to the resolution,” the release reads. “Maynor’s sentence includes lifetime sex-offender probation and electronic monitoring following his release from state prison after 177 months.”
SAO officials explained that the victim, who is now in her 20s, was an athlete on the tennis and golf teams that Maynor had coached.
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Police said that the incident started when Maynor asked the victim to send him videos of her workouts to see her “progressing” and getting fit for the sports teams.
These videos soon became sexual, and Maynor would meet with her every day in his classroom to engage in sex acts, investigators added.
An arrest report shows that these activities happened on campus between October 2018 and May 2019, though it died down a bit when a school employee nearly caught the two while she was performing a sex act on Maynor.
Regardless, a student reported rumors circulating online about Maynor’s inappropriate conduct, eventually leading police to investigate the case, SAO officials revealed.
Police said they were also notified by the victim’s parents after her father became aware of the relationship.
During a call with the victim recorded by police, Maynor instructed her to tell her father that she’d made the story up, warning he would “go to prison” if her father got ahold of her cell phone records, the report says.
The arrest report also shows that Maynor asked the victim, “Are we busted?”
Following his arrest, prosecutors initially pushed for 21 charges against Maynor, though those were ultimately scaled back to the single first-degree felony charge of sexual battery.
Maynor’s sentence prohibits him from having any contact with the victim and any unsupervised contact with children during his probation.