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Brianne Altice wants to see good come out of her bad situation.

The former Davis High School English teacher pleaded guilty last month to having sexual contact with three male students. With her sentencing date approaching — July 9 — Altice made her case in a letter to 2nd District Judge Thomas Kay.

"I will forever be sorry for my actions, and the loss it has caused on all sides," she wrote. "I'd like to show my children that through this struggle, Mom may have fallen, but she got up, learned from it, and created something helpful and positive from it. I will be making changes to help prevent this from happening to others."

In the letter, Altice describes working on potential legislation to improve school districts' communication technology between teachers and students, such as combining texting and e-mail so that they are directly connected to the district's system.

"I believe that is where problems can begin and escalate," she wrote. "I'd like to be an advocate, resource and help the prevention of future situations as this."

A lawsuit against the school district claims the students at times skipped other classes to spend entire school days in Altice's classroom, texted her and made sexual comments to her. Altice, in turn, confided in the boys about her marital problems, the lawsuit claims. Eventually, she began seeing them after school and having sex with them, according to the complaint.

The former teacher admitted in plea agreement documents that she touched the genitals of three individuals from January to September 2013. Each of the three teen boys testified at separate preliminary hearings that they had sexual intercourse with Altice.

"The guilt and sorrow I felt for everyone was intense," Altice wrote in her letter. "I needed to be accountable."

She acknowledged that her teaching career is over, "which breaks my heart," she wrote.

Altice faces a possible one- to 15-year prison term for each of her three second-degree felony forcible sexual abuse charges. Deputy Davis County Attorney Susan Hunt told the judge that prosecutors will likely ask for a prison sentence.

But Altice asked Kay that if she serves more time, that it be in jail, not prison.

"I am harmless, I'm not a threat, I'm not violent, I have no criminal history, I do not use drugs," she wrote. "I have a home and a job that I'd like to keep, and I'd love to continue being the active mother I have always been and my children need."

Altice is being held in the Davis County Jail. Her attorney, Ed Brass, had asked last month that she be released before her sentencing date, but Kay denied the request.

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