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<h6><strong style="font-size: 1em;">Laura Amero, 35, was indicted on sexual battery and intimidation of a witness Monday, but she denied all charges in an Ohio court</strong></h6>
<h6><strong>School superintendent was accused having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old student and attempting to do so with another while she was principal </strong></h6>
<h6><strong> She also</strong>, &#8216;tried to have sex with 17-year-old student and threatened them before police found out&#8217;</h6>
<h6><strong>Alleged incidents were between September 2015 and May 2017 with Windham Junior-Senior High School students</strong></h6>
<h6><strong>She was promoted in February but was put on paid leave in April</strong></h6>
<h6><strong>Wednesday the school board suspended her without pay pending investigation </strong></h6>
<h6><strong>Pretrial hearing is scheduled for May 31 and she was released on $350,000 bond</strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Schools Superintendent Laura Amero is accused of engaging in sexual conduct with a 17-year-old student. She was indicted for sexual battery and attempted sexual battery, Monday.<br />
The Ohio school superintendent was charged Monday with having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old student and attempting to do so with another at Windham Junior-Senior High School, then threatening them if they spoke out.<br />
Amero, 35, was indicted on two third-degree felony counts of sexual battery, two fourth-degree felony counts of attempted sexual battery and she pleaded guilty to all via video.<br />
The charges stem from alleged incidents between February and May 2017 with a 16-year-old student who is now 18.<br />
The second set of charges occurred between September 2015 and May 2016 with another student, a 17-year-old who is now 19.<br />
She was also charged with two first-degree misdemeanor counts of intimidation of a crime victim or witness which allegedly occurred March 28.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font"><img class="alignnone wp-image-316977" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Laura-Amero-5-251x300.png" alt="" width="572" height="684" /><strong style="font-size: 1em;">She was indicted on two third-degree felony counts of sexual battery, two fourth-degree felony counts of attempted sexual battery Monday as well as,</strong> <strong>two counts of intimidation of a witness alleged to have occurred March 28</strong></p>
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Amero joined Windham as principal in 2015 but was promoted to superintendent of Windham Exempted Village Schools February 1 on a three and half year contract for $96,500.<br />
She has been on paid administrative leave since April 1 when the Windham Board of Education was notified of alleged misconduct.</p>
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The Ohio school superintendent was accused having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old male student and attempting to do so with another, a 17-year-old while she was principal at Windham Junior-Senior High School.<br />
The charges are related to alleged incidents between February and May 2017 with a 16-year-old student who is now 18.<br />
Another alleged incident occurred between September 2015 and May 2016 with a 17-year-old who is now 19.</div>
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<div>At her arraignment Monday in Portage County Common Pleas Court, she pled not guilty via video to all counts and is being held on a $350,000 cash bond.</div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">The <a class="class" href="https://www.record-courier.com/news/20190422/windham-superintendent-pleads-not-guilty-to-sexual-battery-intimidation" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Record-Courier</a> reports that the Board of Education President Darryl McGuire believes law enforcement brought the matter to the school district&#8217;s attention.<br />
The district said in a statement: &#8216;The Windham Exempted Village Schools will continue to cooperate as requested by law enforcement.&#8217;<br />
In a Wednesday meeting the board decided to suspend Amero in a unanimous vote. It was decided during the 14-minute meeting that she will not be paid while the case is pending.<br />
McGuire said there was nothing alarming on her record when they hired her, <a class="class" href="https://fox8.com/2019/04/22/windham-school-superintendent-charged-with-having-sexual-relationship-with-student/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Fox 8</a> reported.<br />
Prior to her elevation, she taught English at Western Reserve High School in Mahoning County under Principal Jeff Zatchok.</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Her file from the school is largely positive but part of her 2009-2010 school year evaluation says she could &#8216;work to maintain a solid boundary between student/teacher differences&#8217;.<br />
Married for a year to the principal&#8217;s son Jacob Zatchok in 2012. The marriage ended in divorce a year later. Jacob Zatchok who is listed as working at Western Reserve High School remarried in 2018.<br />
The year of her marriage 2012 she was praised for her engaged students, class management and organization in a peer evaluation.</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">She was put on paid leave in April while former Superintendent Gregg Isler has returned to Windham as acting superintendent.<br />
Following Wednesday&#8217;s meeting Board President Darryl McGuire said: &#8216;We can bring in counselors but right now we haven&#8217;t seen that problem. The acting superintendent is on top of that with the principals and are working on that issue, but our main focus is concentrating on education.&#8217;<br />
A pretrial hearing is scheduled for May 31 in Portage County Common Pleas Court. Amero was released on $350,000 bond.</p>
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Ohio school superintendent Laura Amero, 35, ‘had sex with student, 16, tried to have sex with 17-year-old student and threatened them before police found out’
