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Pennsylvania-Ex -teacher, Ryan Novak, charged for alleged involvement with Schenley student
01/15/08-17:13 |
By Bill Zlatos
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, February 2, 2007
Pittsburgh police have charged a former city school teacher who is accused of being involved in a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old student.
Ryan Novak, 25, of Beechview, was arrested Thursday afternoon on charges of corrupting the morals of a minor and endangering the welfare of a child.
Novak was a soccer coach and industrial arts teacher at Schenley High School last school year.
The parents of a female Schenley student found sexually explicit text messages on her cell phone and alerted school officials, who contacted city police on Jan. 23.
Pittsburgh Public Schools spokeswoman Ebony Pugh said Novak taught at Carrick High School from 2003-04 and at Schenley from 2004-06. He was laid off last summer but recalled in the fall to Taylor Allderdice High School in Squirrel Hill. Novak resigned from the district Jan. 19.
"We are cooperating with police," Pugh said.
City sex assault detectives said the investigation revealed that the teen and Novak began communicating via instant messaging and text messaging in October. Eventually, she began meeting Novak at his home and this lead to a sexual relationship between the two, detectives said.
Two other teachers in Allegheny County have gotten in trouble in the past two weeks.
Edward L. Springer, a special education teacher at Faison School's intermediate campus in Homewood, was arrested last week after being accused of having child pornography on his home computer. Springer, 58, is from Coraopolis.
He was arraigned on 47 counts of sexual abuse of children in connection with child pornography.
And officials in the North Allegheny School District accepted the resignation of Julie Stimmel, 28, of Franklin Park, after allegations arose that she had an inappropriate relationship with a 17-year-old male senior.
Stimmel, who has not been charged with a crime, taught composition and American literature.
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