IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - An Iowa City Community School District employee was sentenced to probation for sexually exploiting a student.

In March, 22-year-old Joel Munzila, of Iowa City, pled guilty to sexual exploitation by a school employee.

A criminal complaint says Munzila was working as a para educator in the Iowa City Community School District when he began a relationship with a student at the school he was working at.

Investigators said Munzila’s scheme to conceal the relationship involved having the student walk to a pre-determined location in a nearby neighborhood. Then he’d leave the school during the workday and pick her up. They would then drive to a residence in Coralville where they would have sex.

Munzila would drop her off in a neighborhood near the school so she could wa

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