Former Crestwood band director guilty of inappropriate contact with student

WRIGHT TOWNSHIP, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A former band director and music teacher at Crestwood High School was found guilty of inappropriate contact with a student .

38-year-old Theron Roberts has been found guilty by a jury for the following charges:

• Institutional sexual assault
• Corruption of minors
• Indecent assault on a person less than 16-year-olds
• Indecent assault forcible compulsion
• Harassment

Investigators say that Roberts had inappropriate contact with a female student and then threatened the girl if she told anybody about what he did.

According to the affidavit, the victim told detectives that Roberts would touch her in ways that made her feel uncomfortable in the fall of 2019 when she was between 14 and 15 years old.

Police say the contact happened on Crestwood High School property and the band room.

Roberts was Crestwood’s band director and a music teacher from 2016 to 2019.

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