CONWAY — A Chocorua woman who worked as a substitute teacher in Pennsylvania and pleaded guilty there to having sexual contact with a student was sentenced Monday.
Whitney Roberts was placed on that state's sex offender registry for 25 years and will be on probation for a year, a Pennsylvania judge decided.
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