A married Pennsylvania high school choir director named Olivia Ortz has been arrested and charged with two counts of sexual activity after her husband reported to the school administrators that she’s been having s*xual relations with a 17-year-old female student at the Wilmington Area High School.
The New York Post has the details.
Her husband, who did freelance work for the school’s music department, found incriminating messages on Ortz’s iPad after coming home from a recent trip to Florida and told the principal.
Ortz, of Hermitage, was suspended on May 9 and had a warrant was issued for her arrest on Friday. According to reports, she declined to immediately turn herself in and even sang in a local concert on Sunday before finally surrendering the following day.
Remarkably, Ortz’s predecessor as the school’s music director, Jonathan Priano, 37, is also facing similar charges of sexual misconduct with students.
He allegedly had an affinity for tickling the feet of coeds and forming inappropriately close relationships with them, according to reports. His criminal case is pending.
Acting on tips from Ortz’s husband, investigators found more than 100 messages between the choir leader and her female student using Spotify’s chat function.
The pair allegedly has a code word in case their illicit dalliance was ever discovered. In interviews with police, the student admitted to going to the teacher’s home when her spouse was away and that they had sex on several occasions.
The girl said she returned to Ortz’s home after her husband discovered their relationship to offer the teacher comfort, according to WTAE. Ortz is being held in the Lawrence County lockup on $150,000 bond and her next hearing is set for May 25.
It’s time parents critically watch their teen students because the rate at which these HS teachers are having s*xual relations with them is alarming.
I am sure that the divorce papers will be coming soon.
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