Abbiejane Swogger, 34, of Natrona, Pennsylvania is a special-education aide at Highlands Senior High School. She resigned under pressure yesterday and has been charged with possession of crack cocaine and corruption of minors for an underage party involving high school teenagers at New Kensington’s Clarion Hotel.

The room held evidence of drug paraphernalia and a strong marijuana smell when police knocked on the door around noon last Friday. Swogger was questioned at New Kensington police station and charges were pending while officers consult with the Westmoreland Country DA’s office. According to Detective Dennis Marsili, Swogger was in the hotel lobby when police arrived. Two female juveniles were in the room along with three males. The girls parents had contacted police to report their daughters missing. Charges were filed earlier today after the investigation was complete.

Highlands School District officials fired Swogger when she failed to report to work on either Thursday or Friday last week. According to Superintendent Karol Galcik, she did not follow proper procedures and was notified by mail that she could either resign or go before the school board and face dismissal. The former exotic dancer was hired by the school district in September 2007. The minimum wage job did not require a drug test as a condition of employment.

Swogger told officers that she had rented the hotel room to socialize and drink beer with adult friends but her son’s teen friends showed up and wouldn’t leave. She claims she didn’t know they were doing drugs and she didn’t supply the beer. She further claims that she didn’t have sex with any of the teens but acknowledges that they may have had sex among themselves – but she wasn’t aware of that happening.

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