The teacher reported this to Army criminal investigators, who began an investigation that led to the criminal charges. While reminiscing about her time in elementary school, the former student said she hated Zappey and said he had touched her inappropriately. The government asked for a life sentence.Īrmy Criminal Investigation Division Europe field office and the FBI investigated the case.Īccording to the government’s sentencing memorandum, a Patch Elementary School teacher returned to the United States on summer vacation in 2020 and saw one of the former Patch students at a mutual friend’s home. He faced a mandatory minimum penalty of 30 years in prison. 18 of four counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child and four counts of abusive sexual contact. He was arrested in July, 2021, while he and his wife were in the United States for a month during the summer. Zappey continued to teach at the school for another 11 years. During that time, he was named teacher of the year for his school district in 2007, according to court documents. The incidents at trial happened between 20. Patch Elementary on Patch Barracks in Stuttgart from 2001 to 2021 for the Department of Defense Education Activity.
He had taught first through third grade at Alexander M. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Stefan Zappey, 57, formerly of Stuttgart, Germany, was sentenced May 2 in U.S.
A former teacher at a Department of Defense elementary school in Germany has been sentenced to life in prison for sexually abusing four of his students who were between 6 and 8 years old at the time, according to the Department of Justice.
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