A former Lakewood teacher was sentenced last week in a sexual assault case that began after a special needs student left hints about an inappropriate relationship on a class assignment. The boy's writing was witnessed by another teacher in November At the time, the Lakewood Police Department was notified and an investigation launched. It uncovered a sexual relationship between the year-old and one of the school's paraprofessionals, Imagine Kay Ewers.
Ewer, 28, was sentenced Jan. That probation could last the rest of her life, depending on Ewer's success or failure with a sex offender treatment program. Ewer pleaded guilty last November to sexual assault on a child and contributed to the delinquency of a minor, both felonies, a month before she was scheduled to go to trial.
Prosecutors dismissed three other felony counts and one misdemeanor in exchange for her guilty plea. According to a press release from the 1st Judicial District Attorney's Office, Lakewood's criminal investigation revealed Ewer's obvious "favoritism" for the victim was noticed by school staff "almost immediately" after Ewer began working there in August Evidence of a possibly inappropriate relationship began a month later, per prosecutors.
Ultimately, investigators found "thousands upon thousands upon thousands" of text messages, evidence of the introduction of drugs, alcohol, and weapons, and references to numerous sexual encounters, as described by prosecutors.
Ewer also repeatedly asked the boy to bring a gun to their sexual encounters and directed him "to bring the gun to school and shoot another faculty member in the leg," said Chase. What makes this even more painful is that I trusted the defendant Contiguglia noted the case was Ewer's first adult felony conviction, per the DA's office. But she also expressed concern for aggravating circumstances of the case and the fact Ewer was arrested for drug possession in Douglas County while awaiting her trial in JeffCo.
