A local teen

charged with displaying sexually explicit Web sites to eighth graders

while serving as a substitute teacher at Whitewater Middle School last

year was sentenced to six months in prison by Fayette County State Court

Judge Fletcher Sams Friday afternoon.

Charlie Sheets

Jr. will also face 30 months probation, a $3,000 fine and character development

counseling. Sams also ordered Sheets to stay off Board of Education property,

including athletic events, and refrain from supervising or teaching children

while on probation.

An appeal of

the case has already been filed. A six-member jury found Sheets guilty

of three counts of deprivation of a minor child after his trial last week.

His attorney, Scott Ballard, said Sheets' conduct was inappropriate but

did not reach the level of criminal conduct.

A number of

students testified during the trial that Sheets was aware the sexually

explicit Web sites were being displayed for the entire class on a nearby

television set. It was also testified that Sheets made remarks that he

would not get in trouble because his father is an assistant principal

in the school system. His father, Charlie Sheets Sr., was not an assistant

principal at the school when the incident occurred.

Sgt. Thomas

Pope of the Fayette County Sheriff's department testified that his investigation

led to a listing of the web sites the computer visited that day and several

days before which was found on the computer's hard drive. Pope testified

that although the list showed the time each site was accessed, it could

not show how long the images were on the screen.

One of the

sites showed pictures of a model clothed only in a towel. Another web

site showed a video clip of two men in a shower together, one dressed

in a thong.

Some students

testified how, before one class, Sheets drew an anatomically correct male

"hangman" figure on the board, with a graphic reference to his

male anatomy.

Other students

testified that Sheets was upset when the computer couldn't call up a Web

site with pictures from a class trip to Costa Rica which reportedly had

photos of two students in bikinis.