A Missouri court has sentenced a 30-year-old former substitute teacher to a decade in prison for essentially turning her rural middle school students into prostitutes, paying them for sex and rewarding them with drugs and alcohol.

Carissa Jane Smith of Dixon, MO, a town of only 1,200 130 miles southwest of St. Louis, was arrested a year ago on 19 felony counts, including rape and sex trafficking of minors, according to previous reports.

In an apparent plea agreement, Smith pled guilty in September to the reduced charges of two counts of sexual contact with a student and one count of first-degree child endangerment.

The details that emerged in the case since police arrested Smith last year present a harrowing tale of debauchery in the small Dixon R-1 School District over a one-year

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