Subsitute teacher pleads guilty to attempted rape of 14-year-old
Posted: 01.31.2012 at 5:46 AM
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LOCKPORT (AP) -- An upstate New York substitute teacher has pleaded guilty to the attempted rape of a 14-year-old girl he was tutoring.

John Summerson of Lockport appeared Monday in Niagara Count Court, where he pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of attempted second-degree rape.

He faces 1 1/3 to four years in prison when he's sentenced in May.

In an indictment, the 25-year-old was accused of having sex with the victim last February. Authorities learned of the matter in May when the girl's stepfather confronted him at a donut shop and police were called to the scene.

Summerson had been a long-term substitute at Niagara Elementary School.

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