WILMINGTON, Del. - A sixth-grade science teacher who was accused of having sex with a 13-year-old student has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Rachel L. Holt, 35, had pleaded guilty to second-degree rape. She sobbed in court Friday as Superior Court Judge Calvin L. Scott gave her the mandatory minimum sentence.

Prosecutors had wanted Scott to sentence Holt to the maximum of 25 years.

Holt was initially charged with 28 counts of first-degree rape.

Police accused her of having sex with the boy that many times during an intense weeklong affair. She was also accused of plying the boy with alcohol and allowing him to drive her car.

There is a double standard between boys and girls because the two sexes are very different.

I think justice would have called for her to be in jail fo 18 months and 5 years of probation. This sentence is ridiculous.

I think cases like this undermine the seriousness of "real" instances of rape.
I'm talking about when a stranger attacks a woman and holding a knife to her assaults her. We all agree the rapist should be dropped in the nearest wood chipper.

The teacher, while not being an exemplary role model, is a far cry from the rapist holding a knife at some woman's throat.

This woman does not belong in jail, or in a classroom. Let's spend our prison dollars on real rapists.