By Sharon Turco
The Cincinnati Enquirer

When a Christian Center Academy teacher who had sex with a 17-year-old student told a judge he felt it was the "right love, the wrong time" and still desired the teenager, the judge gave him time to think about his feelings - in jail.

"How can I get you to understand there will be punishment if you contact her, be with her, desire her or be close to her?" the judge asked Brian Fetchik. "I need you to understand this, I need you to get into my zone."

Jail for a week, ordered Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Melba Marsh.

The victim, now 18, is no longer seeing Fetchik, 30, and is in counseling.

She asked that Fetchik be given probation, and with her parents at her side she sobbed as he waited to be taken to the Hamilton County jail.

Fetchik is scheduled to return to court for sentencing on two counts of sexual battery July 18. He faces up to 10 years in prison.

Fetchik is the second Christian Academy teacher convicted of sexual battery of having sex with a student in the last 17 months.

William Wise, 29, of Anderson Township was sentenced in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court in February 2002 to spend three years in prison on three charges of sexual battery, according to court records. Last month he asked to be released early. A decision on that request is pending, according to court records.

The Christian Center Academy is a private school in Union Township, Clermont County, with 112 students with 13 full-time teachers, according to the school's Web site.

School officials could not be reached for comment, nor would a voice mail at the school allow for a message to be left.

Fetchik, of Warren County, pleaded no contest and was found guilty of the sexual battery charges in June.

An indictment accused him of having sexual contact with the victim in February and March 2002.

Fetchik was married at the time, but got divorced last month, according to court records.

He and the student stopped their relationship, but resumed it after the girl graduated in 2002, according to the Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office.

A break-in to the car of a girl living with the victim resulted in a police investigation in which the relationship was discovered.

During Fetchik's sentencing, Marsh questioned him about how the relationship began. A friendship grew into love, Fetchik said.

"She is not a grown woman," Marsh said. "She's a student and a child. This is a relationship that never should have happened."

That's when Fetchik admitted he still desired the teenager. She wrote in a victim impact statement that it was the "right love, the wrong time." Fetchik agreed.

When taking a job as a math teacher at the academy five years ago, Fetchik signed a contract stating that he was a born-again Christian. He also promised to serve as a role model in and out of school, Marsh noted.

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