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NEPHI — A former history teacher and assistant coach of the Juab High School football team pleaded guilty Wednesday to obstruction of justice after a female student sent him inappropriate pictures, according to court records.
Shane Blackett, 27, of Nephi, was arrested and resigned from the school in May as the Juab School District investigated "allegations of misconduct involving a student."
Blackett wasn't charged, however, until Tuesday. He pleaded guilty Wednesday to obstruction of justice, a third-degree felony.
According to charging documents, a female student admitted to investigators that she "had sent images" to Blackett after he had "solicited inappropriate pictures by phone and she had sent pictures to him" via Snapchat.
The pictures were sent in either December of 2013 or January of 2014, according to police. After Blackett became aware of the criminal investigation against him, "he took steps to erase evidence of a crime from his phone," the charges state.
Blackett was a first-year teacher at the school.
He was sentenced to 10 days in the Juab County Jail, which a judge said could be served "on weekends or days off in at least 48-hour increments" and must be completed by March 31.
Blackett was also given a suspended prison sentence of up to five years. He was also placed on 36 months of probation, ordered to pay a fine, undergo a psychosexual evaluation by Feb. 21 and complete any recommended treatment and have no contact with the victim or her family, according to court records.
