Abbie Jane Swogger
Posted by: Webmaster in FE-FV, FE-MV, High Profile Cases, High Schools, Pennsylvania, Teacher's Aides(2/25/08 - Initial BBT Report)
Abbie Jane Swogger, 34, a teacher’s aide at Highlands Senior High School in Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania was detained and questioned by police and formal charges are pending on allegations of her renting a hotel room where the police found beer, marijuana, an open condom wrapper and at least four teenage girls and boys, including several of her 15-year-old son’s friends.
Swogger has denied rumors that have been circulating through the high school that she was having sex with her son’s friends.
KDKA and others are reporting that Swogger has resigned from the school system.
Swogger, a one-time exotic dancer, worked for the school system since September providing one-on-one personal-needs assistance for a disabled student.
Reportedly drug and corruption of minors charges are likely pending against Swogger.
Webmaster’s Note: This is an extremely complex case in it’s earliest stages. We will try to follow this case as it plays out. At this stage of things Abbie Jane Swogger is simply a suspect in alleged criminal activity and the investigation continues.
2/26/08 - Charges Filed
Abbiejane Swogger was today charged with felony possession of crack cocaine and corruption of minors.
Swogger maintains her claim of innocence, denying all accusations.
2/27/08 - Arrest Details
Reportedly when police showed up at Swogger’s residence to arrest her she refused to let them in until police threatened to break down the door.
When police entered the Swogger residence they found a 17-year-old boy hiding in her bedroom. The boy is not related to Swogger and was found at the motel room earlier.
Following her arrest bond for Swogger was set at $25,000 with 10% required and she was released from jail after posting $2,500
bail.
The Valley News Dispatch reports that Swogger’s personnel file lacks state-mandated clearances required of all school employees and that Swogger had been under investigation regarding a relationship between Swogger and a 17-year-old boy and photographs of Swogger involved in inappropriate behavior that were being circulated throughout the high school.
2/27/08 - Swogger Arrested Again
Swogger is in the Westmoreland County Jail with a bail hearing set for March 6th.
This after she allegedly violated the terms of her bail bond which required her to remain in her residence. Reportedly a caller notified police who found her at a friend’s house and took her into custody.
Again…
Meanwhile, the school district is offering counseling to students and asking that students with nude pictures of Swogger destroy them.
2/28/08 - Court Hearing Details
A 15-year-old female testified that she telephoned Swogger on Tuesday evening. She told the court that she wanted to talk about the 17-year-old boy. The witness testified that the 17-year-old boy is the father of her 2-month-old son.
The teen further testified that Swogger offered her and another girl $40 to beat up a girl that might have made public a cell phone photo of a nude Swogger being caressed by several boys and men at a party.
As an outgrowth of the nude pictures allegedly depicting Swogger and young boys in inappropriate contact police are now considering whether Swogger will face additional criminal charges allegedly involving boys as young as 14.
3/27/08 - Additional charges Filed
New charges have been filed against Swogger.
Police now say that lured two teenage girls to her Clarion Hotel room in the hopes of getting them drunk and high and then wanted them to have sex with her.
04/24/08 - Even More Charges Filed Against Swogger
Abbie Jane Swogger has been charged with 33 additional counts.
The latest round of charges includes allegations that Swogger performed a sex act on a 16-year-old boy at his house three weeks prior to the hotel party, that she stripped for men and boys at the home of a 15-year-old boy in January and that Swogger allowed the men and boys to touch her inappropriately.
Swogger has a preliminary hearing set for May 1st and she remains in the Westmoreland County jail.
05/01/08 - Court Hearing
Swogger was arraigned this week on the 33 counts. The court has ruled that her cases will all be heard in Allegheny County.
Swogger’s efforts to get her bail reduced were denied.
She remains jailed on a bail totaling $150,000.
A preliminary hearing on all of the charges is set for May 15.
05/15/08 - Preliminary Hearing
Abbie Jane Swogger has been ordered to stand trial on 39 charges including involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, corruption of minors and possession with intent to deliver crack cocaine.
While being taken back to jail following the preliminary hearing Swogger spoke of the boys at the alleged hotel party saying, “They’re lying to save their own butts from getting in trouble for the things that they’ve done.” When asked by reporters to explain Swogger replied with “No comment”.
Swogger remains jailed in lieu of on $150,000 bond.
References:
Ex-teacher’s aide to trial for teen partying charges (05/15/08)
Ex-Highlands Teacher’s Aide: Teens Lying About Hotel Party (05/15/08)
Various news media outlets have spelled Swogger’s name in different ways including Abbiejane Swogger, Abbie Jane Swogger, Abbie-Jane Swogger, Abby-Jane Swogger and Abby Jane Swogger.
Teacher’s aide denied bail reduction, moved to Allegheny (05/01/08)
Swogger facing 33 new charges (04/24/08)
Stripper Turned TA Charged Again; Nude Pic Taken At 15-Year-Old’s Party (04/23/08)
Police: Ex-T.A. Lured Students For Drunken Sex (3/27/08)
Swogger story, photos spread worldwide (2/29/08)
Woman in nude photos ex-teacher’s aide, police say (2/28/08)
Judge to Swogger: ‘I’m going to let you sit in jail’ (2/28/08)
Ex-High School Teacher’s Aide Arrested Again (2/27/08)
Ex-aide’s file lacks state clearances (2/27/08)
Former Highlands teacher’s aide arrested in corruption case (2/27/08)
School Aide In Hotel With Teens, Drugs Hit With Felony Charge (2/26/08)
Ex-High School Teacher’s Aide Charged In Hotel Party (2/26/08)
Teacher’s aide who had hotel party quits (2/26/08)
Teacher’s Aide Resigns After Arrest (2/25/08)
Swogger Resigns From Position At Highlands High School (2/25/08)
Highlands teens found at hotel with teacher aide (2/25/08)
Teacher’s Aide Arrested, Now Resigns
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April 3rd, 2008 at 9:25 pm
i kind of feel sorry for her she will probably get a movie out of this and lots of money but never peace of mind. she will have to go to jail for something the 16 and 17 old children wanted to happen and do not think that the girls are telling the truth about her
April 3rd, 2008 at 9:12 pm
i kind of feel sorry for her she is being crucified by the press and school. i believe she is guilty but still feel sorry for her
March 28th, 2008 at 10:17 am
Sorry, I didn’t realize that she has 2 teenage sons. How must they be feeling right now. Hearing the stories of their mom doing all those things and putting on video. I hope that they will get the help they need to get pass this or at least be in a place where they can deal with it.
March 28th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Abbie is a very sick and sad woman. I hope that they have her son in some therapy. Because he’s going to need it. How pathetic is she to be doing this stuff with kids. She decent looking enough to get guys her age or a little younger. Maybe like their 20’s. But to go for the underage crowd just shows us what type of woman she really is. I say she should go to prison for at least 10 yrs. That way she will be in her mid 40’s and will realize that in those 10 yrs doing time, she could’ve had a worthwhile relationship with a guy that was over 18.
March 7th, 2008 at 8:03 am
Abbie Jane Swogger clearly isn’t that intelligent, and she probably has issues where she needs sexual attention from anyone she can it from. That’s why she’s been a stripper, why she has large breast implants, and why she makes herself available naked for anyone who wants to see. She was a teenage mother and she clearly has self-esteem issues.
She should have just stayed focused on “adult” activities, whether it was stripping, prostitution, or whatever she needed to do to get the attention she craved, rather than getting into a high school environment where teenagers with raving hormones would be easily victimized by her sexuality.
March 7th, 2008 at 1:33 am
Jenna, I also had to pay to get my clearances, and if Abbie Jane had nothing to hide, well then she would of got hers too!!!
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Why don’t you identify yourself “G”. I do have my facts straight. It is public knowledge that she was under investigation long before the whole hotel room incident. As for there being nothing in her past that would have stopped her from getting this job, I guess we, the decent moral citizens of the school district will never know because she was never required to apply for clearances, yet, I, as a parent, had to PAY to get my clearances just to be able to volunteer in my child’s classroom. Sounds like you are trying to damage control. I never said that those bars had strippers there. Maybe YOU should get YOUR facts straight. Just because one person says the sky is orange, doesn’t mean it is-get my drift?
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Jenna you are incorrect about the clearance check. There was nothing in her past that would have stopped her from getting this Job. Abbie has no criminal record to speak of. She had a minor situation that fell under A.R.D. so her record is clear. She never worked at the bar as you say. She was a stripper and not a bartender. These bars you speak of do not have strippers there. The school board member you speak of has talked to reporters already about such accusations as yours and it is not true she never worked for him at his bars. Get your facts straight and stop all the conspiracy theory B.S.