MPS PTO embezzler skirts prison but branded for life

Former Madison Primary School PTO President/Treasurer Dustine Paige Wright was sentenced in Madison County Circuit Court on January 28, 2026, to a 75-year suspended prison sentence after pleading guilty to 12 embezzlement counts. She stole more than $23,000 from the organization that raises funds for the school. PJR photo by Chuck Jackson.

The Somerset woman who stole over $23,000 from the coffers of Madison Primary School PTO received no active prison time in an hour-long sentencing hearing January 28, 2026 in Madison County Circuit Court.

Dustine Paige Wright, 35, a mother of four now living in a Ruckersville apartment with her mom and four children feared the worst as she stood in the courtroom waiting for Presiding Judge David B. Franzen sentencing…

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