Salina Post

SALINA — Sentencing has been delayed about a month for a former middle school counselor who was convicted last summer of raping a male student while he was working at her home.

Defense attorney Roger Struble ask for the continuance in the sentencing of 33-year-old Brooke Dinkel, citing medical issues. Judge Patrick Thompson continued the sentencing to 2:30 p.m. Nov. 12.

During her June conviction, a jury convicted Dinkel, who was a counselor at Smoky Valley Middle School in Lindsborg, of having sex with the then 13-year-old boy at her Salina home in late 2012. She was convicted on two counts of rape. She was acquitted on 18 other counts of rape and aggravated criminal sodomy.

She previously had taught at Felten Middle School in Hays.