CONWAY — A Chocorua woman who was working in Pennsylvania as a substitute teacher and charged there in March of 2018 with having sexual contact with a student has pleaded guilty to one of the charges.
Pennsylvania State Police charged Whitney Roberts, 26, with two counts of institutional sexual assault and a misdemeanor corruption of a minor count regarding incidents that allegedly took place in November of 2017.
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