HANCOCK, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York announced that 58-year-old Paul Geer of Hancock was sentenced on Thursday to 27 years and 3 months in federal prison in a sexual assault case involving children. Geer was convicted back in March.

Geer was previously found guilty of subjecting students to acts of cruelty while working as a teacher at the Family Foundation School in Hancock between 1994 and 2001, including denying them food, issuing physical labor, coercing them into eating vomit, and leaving them bound and alone for extended time periods. He was further found to have raped two different children after abusing his authority as a teacher and forcing the students to travel with him privately to Canada.

"Paul Geer was a monster. As a te

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