NEWPORT, N.H. (AP) – A 19-year-old former teacher’s aide is scheduled for trial in January on charges she ran off with a 14-year-old boy.
Jennifer Newcomb, of Croydon, faces one count of interfering with child custody. Police say she left town with Randy Gentner in July.
The two met at Newport Middle High School, where Newcomb was a teacher’s aide in the alternative education program, authorities said.
Gentner escaped from a group home for troubled teenagers by climbing through the bathroom window, police said. The two were caught 10 days later in Robbins, N.C. Gentner is back in state custody and in a new home.
Newcomb is being held on $25,000 cash bail. She faces up to seven years in prison if convicted.
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