(AP) — The husband of a Springfield elementary school teacher has been sentenced to three years of probation for promoting prostitution, in a case in which his wife is also charged.

43-year-old Mark Fiedler was sentenced Thursday in Greene County Circuit Court. He pleaded guilty to the charge in September.

Mark and Laura Fiedler were accused of arranging meetings between people seeking sex and alleged prostitutes in a downtown office they leased. The charges followed a police sting operation.

Laura Fiedler remains on unpaid administrative leave from her Springfield teaching job. She’s awaiting trial on a lesser charge of promoting prostitution, but her husband denied Thursday that she was involved in the scheme.