Cassandra Sproch, a 42-year-old Pittsburgh dance instructor, has been arrested after being accused of offering wine and sex to at least two teenage boys. Sproch, a former part-time teacher at the Propel Charter School in Homestead, is charged with indecent assault, corruption and unlawful contact with minors, endangering the welfare of a child and furnishing alcohol to minors.
Cassandra Sproch (From an archive of sewickleyperformingarts.org)
Sproch allegedly invited several teens over to her house and poured each one a glass of wine. According to a criminal complaint, Sproch got drunk and "kissed the victim and put her hand on him." This isn't the only incident involving Sproch under investigation.
At another time, Sproch allegedly took a teen out for dinner at a restaurant and began kissing his neck and offered him sex. Sproch worked primarily with kindergarten through 8th grade students at Propel. She was dismissed from the school in mid-November, around the time one of the alleged incidents occurred.
According to
the website for the Father Ryan Arts Center in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, Sproch was currently teaching several classes at the facility at the time of her arrest.
Nor is this the first time Sproch has been in trouble with the law. In March, 2008, she was indicted on charges of access device fraud after allegedly spending $1,000 using American Express and CitiBusiness credit cards in another person's name. A federal court placed Sproch on five years probation in November, 2008, in relation to the charges and she was ordered to pay $15,000 restitution.
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