A 17-year-old student at Pennsylvania’s Owen J. Roberts High School told Berks County investigators her teacher groped and kissed her in March, when she returned to school to collect a textbook during the coronavirus lockdown.

Pennsylvania State Trooper Matthew McGuire received a tip about 53-year-old teacher Stephen Eric Raught from the state’s anonymous tip line, Childline, on March 24 and interviewed the alleged victim two days later.

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The unidentified 17-year-old girl told McGuire she went to Roberts High School on March 16 to retrieve a textbook she needed for at-home study during the coronavirus lockdown, then left to run errands. She later returned to the school and met up with Raught, “a teacher with whom she had been having after-school conversations,” and walked with him inside, The Daily News reports.

The two went to Raught’s classroom, where the girl alleges the social studies teacher and baseball coach sexually assaulted her. The teen alleges Raught hugged and kissed her, then pulled her out of sight of the door to kiss her stomach through her clothes, according to the news site.

“He then stood up, laced her on a counter, and began kissing her between the legs,” the News reports. “When he stopped, she said, Raught told her: ‘I wish I could take you home with me. But we know that would be very bad and I wouldn’t be able to help myself.’”

Raught, a former teachers union president, also allegedly told the girl it’s “too bad we have quarantine, or else you would be in my classroom every day after school.”

The teen told McGuire the incident occurred after she spent a lot of time with Raught after school in his classroom, where the two would discuss the teen’s personal life, according to the Reading Eagle.

District officials placed Raught on administrative leaving pending his criminal case, CBS Philly reports.

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The teacher now faces felony charges of institutional sexual assault and unlawful contact with a minor, as well as misdemeanors for corruption of minors and endangering the welfare of children. Raught was arraigned last week and released on a $50,000 bail, the News reports.

“A teacher who violates his duty of care and protection of a minor will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Chester County District Attorney Deb Ryan said in a prepared statement. “We expect our children will be safe at school.”

OJR Superintendent Susan Lloyd wrote a letter to parents to inform them of Raught’s arrest, and to urge them to speak up when they suspect a teacher or other school employee is exploiting their children.

“This is one area where I need your help,” Lloyd wrote. “Please encourage your children to let a teacher, school counselor, or administrator know if a situation exists which could ever place them and others in danger.

“Only by working as a school community in partnership with parents can we create and maintain the level of safety that we want for our children and that they certainly deserve,” she wrote.