A former Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) teacher was sentenced to time already served after pleading guilty to child sexual abuse.
John Anthony Vigna, 57, of Silver Spring, was accused of inappropriately touching several female students while a teacher at Clover Elementary School on Briggs Chaney Road in Silver Spring.
Vigna pleaded guilty on March 1 to one count of sexual child abuse and three counts of sexual abuse of a minor for crimes he committed against multiple students at Cloverly Elementary School between 2001 and 2016.
His plea agreement covered those crimes Vigna as well as new charges from November of 2023.
Vigna had been convicted when his conviction was overturned last summer. He was released on bond and was awaiting a new trial.
His conviction was tossed out by Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge David Lease after new attorneys for Vigna argued he had “ineffective assistance of counsel.”
In 2017, Vigna was found guilty on nine counts involving four victims and began serving 48 years in prison.
