Monday, July 7, 2008

Swogger Stands Trial On 40 Counts For Sexual Abuse Of Minors


Abbie Jane Swogger left the court house Friday after making comments to the media. Swogger was held for trial on 40 charges involving numerous minors in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties. As the case was built, her hearings were postponed, as new charges were added until the last of the 40 charges were copletly ivestigated prior to trial.

Friday A 17-year-old boy testified yesterday about his month-long relationship with a former teacher’s aidewho plied him withbeer and drugs in exchange for sex with the boy.

Based on his words and those of five other witnesses, Abbie Jane Swogger was held for trial on 40 charges accusing her of sex, drug and corruption crimes involving numerous minors in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties, she pleaded not guilty.

Swogger, who turned 35th spent her birthday in Jail, and as she sat in the court room, she appeared frustrated and jumpy, sometimes jiggling her leg or flexing her fingers.

At one point after a 15-year-old boy testified about her giving him oral sex, she whispered to her son, who sat behind her in court, “Don’t believe everything he says.” The 15-year-old is the 17-year-old’s brother.

Police arrested Ms. Swogger in February after she stayed overnight at the Clarion Hotel in New Kensington with several male and female juveniles. In the room, police found crack cocaine, the odor of marijuana, beer and used condoms.

Swogger who became a teachers aide, was a former prostitute, and nude dancer, who frequented clubs in Ohio, and locally in Reynolds before leaving the area to move to new kensington to become part of the drug scene that provades parts of the drug infested town.

At that point, a woman who said Ms. Swogger had dated one of her relatives yelled, “You should be ashamed! You’re sick.”

She resigned in February after police uncovered the hotel party as they searched for two runaway girls.

The girls ended up at the hotel with Ms. Swogger after they ran into the 15-year-old. One girl testified that Ms. Swogger stroked her thigh.

“She said that she was bisexual and her goal was to get us all high and to have sex with us,” the girl said.

Swogger did have several charges dismissed, she succeeded in defeating the rumor she was to have a person beat up another person who posted naked cell phone photos of her on the internet.

Swogger who was unable to post a 150,000 bond is in jail in Westmoreland County.

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