By Calvin Palmer
A teacher at a Connecticut magnet school was charged yesterday with sexually assaulting a student following an investigation into another teacher’s alleged sexual relationship with a student.
Anastasia Gagnon, 20, of Willimantic, was charged with second-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor. The choreographer and dance instructor at the Capitol Theater Arts Academy, Willimantic, turned herself in to state police in Tolland.
She was later arraigned at Rockville Superior Court and posted $15,000 bail.
Gagnon is accused of having a sexual relationship ,and having sex on two occasions, with a 15-year-old girl. She no longer works at the school.
Police say they learned of the relationship during an investigation of another teacher.
Adam Friedman, 44, of Newington, was charged in December with seven counts of second-degree sexual assault and seven counts of risk of injury to a minor.
Police allege Friedman had an ongoing sexual relationship with another 15-year-old girl. That girl told investigators that she and Friedman, who was the facilities and marketing manager at the Capitol Theater Arts Academy, had sex repeatedly in his office at the school and various other places.
Friedman is also free on bail.
[Based on reports by newsday.com and the Norwich Bulletin.]
