South Bend Tribune
SOUTH BEND — A special education tutor at Riley High School is charged with two felonies after allegedly having sex with a student who had run away from home.
Prosecutors charged Denise Freitag, 55, with two counts of child seduction Wednesday, alleging she took the 16-year-old into her house earlier this month.
According to court documents, the student's father reported him as a runaway on June 11, but noticed his cell phone appeared in an unfamiliar location and saw posts about a possible sexual encounter with Freitag.
The boy was arrested as a runaway on June 18 and told police he had stayed at an abandoned property before Freitag picked him up and took him to her house. The student said he knew Freitag because she had worked with him at Riley over the past three months completing school assignments, court documents say.