[From www.BuffaloNews.com]
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
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