A former northeast Kansas high school teacher has been sentenced to 60 days in jail for illegal sexual activity involving a female student.

Thirty-seven-year-old Tad Hernandez will also spend more than five years on probation under the sentence he received Tuesday in Jackson County District Court.

Hernandez taught business at Holton High School until resigning last December. He was charged with criminal sodomy and aggravated indecent liberties with a child, but later pleaded no contest to lesser charges of lewd and lascivious behavior and indecent solicitation of a child.

The victim, now a 15-year-old junior at Holton High, and her mother both spoke at the sentencing hearing.

Hernandez was ordered to surrender at the county jail Friday.