"I was very pleased with the sentence because that's what we were seeking," said Deputy District Attorney Jason Anderson of Friday's sentence.
Olsen's attorney, Gina Kershaw, said Olsen expected the judge to give him probation because he had no prior offenses and took responsibility for his actions.
"We were pretty shocked," she said. "What Olsen actually did was minimal. There was not the touching of private parts or anything like that, so I think it's a really harsh sentence."
In February, Eric Norman Olsen, 29, pleaded no contest to the six counts of child molestation.
Authorities began investigating Olsen last summer after several students at an Ontario elementary school reported that he had put his hand under a girl's shirt and touched her back while she showed him her assignments. He had taught at over a dozen Southern California schools.
Olsen told police he had become sexually aroused by more than 100 to 200
children that he held on his lap over the course of three years while working in
Riverside, San Bernardino and Kern Counties.
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