Brett McGee

Introduction

Brett McGee, a 30-year-old former teacher at Peabody-Burns Junior High and High School in Marion County, Kansas, was sentenced to 68 months in prison after pleading no contest to child sex crimes involving a student, including conduct that began when the victim was 14 years old. The November 2026 sentencing capped a case in which McGee admitted no contest to five counts — two of indecent liberties with a child and three of unlawful sexual relations — with some of the sexual contact having taken place in a classroom at the school where he taught.

Background Information

McGee worked as a teacher at Peabody-Burns Junior High and High School, a small combined junior and senior high school in Marion County, Kansas, during the period when the offences took place. Court documents cited in local coverage show that he began engaging in sexual contact with the victim when the victim was 14 and that the crimes continued until the victim was 16 — a span in which the student was simultaneously enrolled in the schools where McGee taught. Prosecutors in Marion County handled the case through plea proceedings rather than trial, and local reporting noted that McGee had no prior criminal history, a factor that capped the sentence he could receive under Kansas statutes.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Convicted and sentenced. McGee pleaded no contest to two counts of indecent liberties with a child and three counts of unlawful sexual relations, and was sentenced to 68 months in prison — the maximum available given his lack of criminal history and the applicable state statutes.

The criminal conduct, according to court documents cited by KWCH, began when the victim was 14 years old and continued until the victim turned 16. Some of the sexual contact took place in a classroom at Peabody-Burns, where McGee was employed as a teacher at the time. The plea covered the Marion County case, but reporting on the sentencing noted that McGee could still face charges in three additional jurisdictions — Harvey County and Riley County in Kansas, and Indianapolis, Indiana — where he was alleged to have had sexual relations with the victim. Under Kansas statute, a conviction in another jurisdiction would carry a lifetime sentence.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The sentence drew coverage across Wichita-area media as the maximum term available on the Marion County counts. In addition to the 68-month prison term, McGee is required to serve lifetime post-release supervision and must register as a sex offender for 25 years. The possibility of further prosecutions in three other jurisdictions remains open, meaning the full criminal consequences of the case had not fully resolved at sentencing.

Current Status

McGee is serving a 68-month prison sentence imposed by a Marion County court after his no-contest pleas, with lifetime post-release supervision and a 25-year sex-offender registration requirement to follow. Potential charges in Harvey County, Riley County and Indianapolis remain a live possibility, and any conviction in those jurisdictions would result in a mandatory lifetime sentence under the statute cited in local coverage.

Impact on Their Career/Life

McGee’s teaching career at Peabody-Burns is over, his freedom is gone for more than five and a half years, and he will spend 25 years on the state’s sex-offender register after release. Because prosecutors in multiple jurisdictions have signalled the case may not end with the Marion County sentence, the 68-month term may prove to be only the first chapter of his criminal exposure — with a lifetime sentence waiting if any of the three outstanding jurisdictions secures a conviction.

Sources

• KWCH 12 Eyewitness News, “Former Kansas teacher sentenced to over 5 years in prison for child sex crimes.” source