By Sharon Coolidge
Enquirer staff writer

A Christian Center Academy teacher convicted of having sex with a student last year is headed to prison if he doesn't cooperate with his therapist, a Hamilton County judge said Thursday.

Brian Fetchik, 31, convicted last year of sexual battery, asked Thursday that his sentence of five years' probation be ended.

Fetchik taught at the private school in Clermont County's Union Township at the time and described his relationship with the 17-year-old student as "the right love, the wrong time."

Judge Melba Marsh scolded Fetchik on Thursday after Hamilton County Prosecutor Jim Butler and probation officer Brett Phillips explained that Fetchik called his therapy "psychobabble" and tried to beat a lie-detector test.

"I try to be as hospitable to you as possible," Marsh told Fetchik. "But it hasn't gotten me anywhere so I'm just going to lay it on the line: You're going to stay with me the entire time of your probation. I will not let you go."

Marsh explained why his probation would continue:

"Mr. Fetchik, you are an enigma and I don't know who you are," Marsh said. "I don't know why you want to be away from me so quickly, so fast, without doing anything in return. So, Mr. Fetchik, I have to think you have your own agenda."

"What I need you to do, Mr. Fetchik, is to get with the program," Marsh said.

If he doesn't, Marsh said she would send him to prison.

Greg Cohen, Fetchik's attorney, who filed the motion to have the probation suspended, said he didn't intend for his client to be humiliated.

Cohen said much of the information presented to the court came from reports done a month after sentencing.

Fetchik is a low risk to reoffend, Cohen said.

Thursday wasn't the first time Marsh chastised Fetchik. At Fetchik's sentencing, Marsh sent him to jail for seven days after he said he still desired the teenager.

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