VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Editor's Note: The above video is from March 2022, when Robert Weisenbeck entered his guilty plea.
A former social studies teacher at Ocean Lakes High School was sentenced Monday after pleading guilty to a sexual abuse charge against a child.
Court records show Robert Weisenbeck, 55, admitted to sexually abusing a child in his custody or supervision in the summer of 2016, according to previous 13News Now coverage.
Authorities say the abuse did not happen at school.
Macie Allen, a spokeswoman for the city's Commonwealth's Attorney, said Weisenbeck was a high school teacher and was acting as a host father for a foreign exchange student in 2016.
She said between the start of June and the end of July that year, he abused the girl in his car and home several times.
Allen said the girl went back to her home country, and only reported the abuse to VBPD years later. She flew back to Virginia to testify in Weisenbeck's sentencing hearing on Monday.
Weisenbeck received the maximum amount of prison time, which is five years, available for the offense, according to the Virginia Beach Commonwealth Attorney's Office.
He will also be supervised for three years after he is released, and he will be required to register as a sex offender.
A spokesperson for Virginia Beach City Public Schools said Weisenbeck retired, effective March 29, 2022, which was one day before his guilty plea. Prior to that, he had been placed on administrative leave without pay.