The North Harford High School classroom assistant arrested for having sex with a 15-year-old student is no longer employed with Harford County Public Schools and is scheduled to stand trial in June.
Amanda Kay Miller, 35, of Whiteford was an inclusion helper at North Harford High School where she was arrested by Maryland State Police in February after a male student reported the pair had sex in her vehicle and exchanged nude text photos. Investigators said that Miller corroborated the details of the victim’s story, adding that “she knows her actions were inappropriate.”
Miller was indicted March 5 on one count of sexual abuse of a minor and two counts of third degree sex offense, according to court documents. Under state law, the maximum penalties are 25 years in prison for sexual abuse of a minor, and 10 years in prison for third-degree sex offense. Miller is scheduled to stand trial in Circuit Court on June 27.
Miller was no longer an employee of the school system as of Feb. 27, according to Harford County Public Schools spokeswoman Teri Kranefeld. She had been on administrative leave following her arrest. Miller had worked as an inclusion helper at North Harford High School since Jan. 30, 2012, according to Kranefeld.
According to charging documents, the student told a social worker with the Harford County Child Advocacy Center that he and Miller began communicating with each other outside of school during the week of Dec. 17. According to the student, their contact included sexual acts while parked in the driveway of his home and in the parking lot of the Fallston Wal-Mart, as well as exchanging nude photos with each other. He added that Miller drove him home on several
occasions and bought him cigarettes.
An inclusion helper provides “support to students during instruction, prepares instructional materials for students under the direction of the teacher, and charts data on student progress.” Kranefeld said the employee screening process for that position “is the same as all HCPS positions. Background checks and fingerprinting are conducted for all personnel as required by law, and are handled by the Department of Safety and Correctional Services and Correctional Services for the State of Maryland, and the FBI.
Miller appears to have no record of other offenses in the state of Maryland, according to court records.
Im surprised this made the news, HCPS are very good at sweeping issues under the rug. What ever happened to the male teacher at CMW that was having sex and taking nude pictures of two female students. I believe it was about 4 years ago. If parents really knew what goes on in these schools with drugs, alcohol and sex, teachers would not have jobs, kids would be home schooled.
They pay these people next to nothing, so sometimes the ones willing to do the jobs are not the cream of the crop. I found when I worked for HCPS’s that they do not go too far into the background of some of these workers, and administrators turn a blind eye to some issues with them. If they investigated they would find some interesting tidbits that would be a big “cause for concern.” And, then there are the administrators who are living less than professionally…
School scandals have always been around, just now with the internet everyone finds out about them quickly instead of waiting for gossip to work its way around.
My high school principal (not in HCPS), a few years after I graduated, was DUI in the French teacher’s car when he rear-ended a cop car with the French teacher passed out in the seat next to him. Her husband was apparently already suspicious of their professional relationship…
Mia Farrow’s bother, from Edgewood, is in big molesting trouble:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/15/mia-farrows-brother-john-charles-villiers-farrow-child-sex-abuse_n_2139583.html
Paul;
Read the article closely, the allegation is from incidents occuring in Edgewater MD, AA Co. not Edgewood. The article does list Edgewood but that has to be in error.