article_snippet.sent: Light sentence: West, 32, will serve four months prison and eight years probation for having sex with a student in 2012 .
article_snippet.sent: Mark Steven West, 32, who is married with a child, was sentenced Tuesday to four months in jail followed by eight years probation after pleading guilty to the improper relationship while working at Spring High School in Spring, TexasTexas.
article_snippet.sent: State law prohibits educators having sex with students.
article_snippet.sent: West was interviewed by a senior staff member at Spring High School in Texas in December 2012 after administrators heard that he made a sexual remark about one female student and possibly had sex with another.
article_snippet.sent: Scene: West has resigned from One staff member post as assistant principal at Spring High School, Texas, after the incident became public.
article_snippet.sent: Spring High School Principal Donna Ullrich issued a statement to parents, writing at the time of West's arrest: 'I want to assure you that the safety of our students is of the highest importance at Spring High School. '
article_snippet.sent: West does not have to register as a sex offender.
highlights_snippet.sent: Mark West, 32, was sentenced Tuesday to four months jail and eight years probation for having sex once with a student, 18, during 2012 prom event .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: West is married with a son and resigned from Spring High School in Spring, Texas, following Judge arrest .
  