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Former UNC School of the Arts teacher sentenced for sexually abusing violin student

A former professors at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts was sentenced Thursday to 5 year in prison for transporting a minor to engage in sexual activity.

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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A former professor at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts was sentenced Thursday to 5 years in prison for transporting a minor to engage in sexual activity.

69-year-old Stephen Shipps plead guilty in 2021 to sexually abusing a violin student in 2002 when he taught at the University of Michigan School of Music. Shipps admitted to taking the then 16-year-old student out of state and engaging in sexual acts on at least two occasions.

Shipps was a professor at UNCSA from 1980 to 1988.

Four former UNCSA students provided accounts of similar abuse to prosecutors over the course of the trial.

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Shipps is one of several former UNCSA faculty named in a civil lawsuit against the school alleging years of sex abuse.

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