Tyshaunna Roberts, 22, teacher at Pathways College Preparatory School, New York City Department of Education, New York City, New York, "arrested ... for touching her 13-year-old student’s private parts" (actually employed by the Sports and Arts in Schools Foundation and assigned to work at Pathways College Preparatory School) New York Daily News: Queens dance teacher busted on charges of touching teen (Oct 24 2013) Tyshaunna Roberts, 22, who worked for an after-school program at the public school Pathways College Preparatory School, was charged with two counts of sex abuse. Cops said the sexual encounters took place between July and August and that Roberts “placed her hands inside the vagina of victim” and well as “placed her mouth” on the girl’s private parts. She was busted after the mother of another student at the sixth- through 12th-grade Queens school complained that Roberts was inappropriately messaging her daughter as well as the victim on Facebook.Tags:
Gothamist: Queens Dance Teacher Arrested For Alleged Sexual Relationship With 13-Year-Old Student (Oct 24 2013) A 22-year-old after school dance teacher was arrested yesterday after investigators found that she had allegedly maintained a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old female student. Tyshaunna Roberts, who taught dance class at Pathways College Preparatory School in Queens, was arrested after the mother of another one of her female students reported inappropriate Facebook exchanges between Roberts and her daughter. Roberts was then fired by her employer, Sports & Arts in Schools Foundation, which had assigned her to the school.
NY 1: Queens Dance Teacher Accused Of Sexual Relationship With 13-Year-Old Student (Oct 24 2013) Investigators have arrested a Queens dance teacher accused of having a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old female student. Tyshaunna Roberts, 22, who works for the Sports and Arts in Schools Foundation, was assigned to an after-school program at Pathways College Preparatory School in St. Albans. According the Special Commissioner of Investigation's office, the victim's mother found messages from Roberts on her daughter's Facebook, implying an inappropriate relationship.
Queens Chronicle: Dance teacher in St. Albans charged with teen sex abuse (Oct 25 2013) Tyshaunna Roberts, 22, who was employed by the Sports & Arts in School Foundation, has been charged with second-degree sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child, according to a statement issued Thursday by the office of Special Commissioner of Investigation Richard Condon.A dance instructor who worked in an afterschool program at a St. Albans charter school was arrested Thursday on charges stemming from an alleged sexual relationship with a 13-year-old female student ... Condon’s office said the investigation began when the mother of another female student reported seemingly inappropriate Facebook messages exchanged between Roberts and her daughter. The mother indicted to investigators that Roberts’ alleged Facebook contact with the student victim “implied an inappropriate relationship.
