YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - A former Warren Harding High School teacher has started serving a six month jail sentence for engaging in sexual conduct with an eighteen-year-old student.

Thirty-one-year-old Amanda Basile of Austintown appeared in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court on Wednesday and was sentenced on an earlier conviction of  gross sexual imposition.

Under Ohio law, it is illegal for a teacher to engage in sex with any student, even if that student is 18.

She was a teacher at Warren Harding High School until her resignation earlier this year.

In 2010, Basile was a substitute teacher in the Austintown Local School District.

As she was sentenced, Basile tearfully apologized to her family, the family of the teen and the school district.

Judge Lou D'Apolito also ordered that Basile be placed on probation for three years, and that she must register as a tier one sex offender when she completes her jail sentence.

Basile resigned her teaching position earlier. She will not be permitted to teach again.