WASHINGTON (7News) — A former Duke Ellington School of the Arts teacher will spend more than a decade in prison after being convicted in February of sexually abusing a student in 2014, according to federal attorneys in D.C.
Mark Williams, 59, of Virginia, was ordered by a D.C. Superior Court judge to spend 16 years after prosecutors argued that he started a sexual relationship with a then-17-year-old student at the Georgetown-area high school.
The student was taking part in an independent study program with Williams as the advisor, and the two met in a locked, windowless room in the basement of the school, prosecutors claimed…