A South Bend Schools employee has been charged with two felony counts of child seduction.
Denise Freitag, a 55-year-old special education tutor at Riley High School, allegedly had sex with a 16-year-old student.
According to court documents, the student’s father reported him as a runaway earlier this month. Freitag allegedly told police she took the student in for a number of days after he contacted her to say he was living on the streets. She allegedly fed the student, washed his clothes and bought him marijuana.
Court documents say Freitag had worked with the student on completing school assignments over the past three months.
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