A former Mar Vista High School campus aide who pleaded guilty to engaging in sex acts with a 17-year-old male student was sentenced Thursday to serve six months in the county's work furlough program.

Lisette Veles Ortega, 32, who was an employee of an outside contractor used by the Imperial Beach secondary school, was arrested in May. At the time, she was working for Ro Healthcare, which the company's website states is a medical staffing and home health agency that helps staff nurses at schools, correctional facilities and for private home care.

She pleaded guilty about four months after her arrest to charges of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor and oral copulation with a minor.

Defense attorney Tom Matthews said his client was remorseful and the case "weighed on her heavily,"

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