Cara L. Dickey, the former school teacher who spent almost three years in prison for raping a teenage student, will spend more time behind bars for failing to register as a sex offender.
Dickey, 35, was sentenced this morning by State Supreme Court Justice John L. Michalski to up to 12 months in the Erie County Correctional Facility in Alden. But she also will serve, concurrently, an 18-month sentence for violating the terms of her parole.
Dickey two months ago pleaded guilty, as charged, to a felony count of failure to register or verify as a sex offender.
In early January, Dickey, who had been living in a halfway house in South Buffalo, disappeared after ditching the ankle bracelet that was a condition of her release on parole. As a convicted sex offender, she was required to register a change of address within 10 days but failed to do so.
She was arrested this past February near Chicago, Ill., after having spent more than a month on the run with another ex-con with whom she had a romantic relationship while serving in the women’s Albion Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison.
The other woman was Candice L. Brighon, 26, who was convicted in Niagara County Court of attempted burglary and possession of a weapon. She now is in the Taconic Correctional Facility, another medium-security women’s prison in Westchester County, serving the balance of her sentence, which expires next May.
A mother of three, Dickey was married and living in Clarence while teaching at South Buffalo Charter School.
In June 2008, she had been repeatedly warned about an inappropriate relationship with a 14-year-old West Seneca boy who attended the school. The relationship became public after Dickey and the boy briefly went missing the afternoon she was suspended from her job.
Dickey subsequently was arrested on multiple charges, including promoting a suicide attempt. Police said she had supplied rum and over-the-counter medications for a suicide pact the pair had made.
Two statutory rape charges followed that fall, after authorities learned that Dickey maintained contact with the boy, in violation of a court order. She pleaded guilty to the rape charges and was sentenced to two, concurrent four-year prison terms in April 2009.
She was released on parole in February 2012.
email: jhabuda@buffnews.com
Dickey, 35, was sentenced this morning by State Supreme Court Justice John L. Michalski to up to 12 months in the Erie County Correctional Facility in Alden. But she also will serve, concurrently, an 18-month sentence for violating the terms of her parole.
Dickey two months ago pleaded guilty, as charged, to a felony count of failure to register or verify as a sex offender.
In early January, Dickey, who had been living in a halfway house in South Buffalo, disappeared after ditching the ankle bracelet that was a condition of her release on parole. As a convicted sex offender, she was required to register a change of address within 10 days but failed to do so.
She was arrested this past February near Chicago, Ill., after having spent more than a month on the run with another ex-con with whom she had a romantic relationship while serving in the women’s Albion Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison.
The other woman was Candice L. Brighon, 26, who was convicted in Niagara County Court of attempted burglary and possession of a weapon. She now is in the Taconic Correctional Facility, another medium-security women’s prison in Westchester County, serving the balance of her sentence, which expires next May.
A mother of three, Dickey was married and living in Clarence while teaching at South Buffalo Charter School.
In June 2008, she had been repeatedly warned about an inappropriate relationship with a 14-year-old West Seneca boy who attended the school. The relationship became public after Dickey and the boy briefly went missing the afternoon she was suspended from her job.
Dickey subsequently was arrested on multiple charges, including promoting a suicide attempt. Police said she had supplied rum and over-the-counter medications for a suicide pact the pair had made.
Two statutory rape charges followed that fall, after authorities learned that Dickey maintained contact with the boy, in violation of a court order. She pleaded guilty to the rape charges and was sentenced to two, concurrent four-year prison terms in April 2009.
She was released on parole in February 2012.
email: jhabuda@buffnews.com