Tyler Zanella, the former Poudre School District paraprofessional who pleaded guilty to abusing students was sentenced to a total of 12.5 years behind bars during a multi-hour hearing Friday.
A former paraprofessional in the Poudre School District received the maximum sentence after pleading guilty on Jan. 29 to several assault, child abuse and harassment charges.
A former paraprofessional in Larimer County, Colorado, from the Poudre School District, Tyler Zanella, entered a guilty plea on Monday, admitting to fewer than a dozen charges out of the initial 164 he faced related to child abuse.
If former bus driver Tyler Zanella's guilty are accepted by judge, he could spend as much as 14½ years in prison for assaulting, abusing and harassing students.