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A married teacher has been arrested over an alleged sexual relationship with a student after they were caught in 'states of undress' in a nature preserve. Jessica Sawicki, 37, from Point Pleasant, New Jersey, taught English at Hamilton High School West in Trenton, which is about a 20-minute drive from the preserve. She is accused of sexually assaulting the student - who has been described as 'at least 16 but not yet 18' - at the Assunpink Wildlife Management Area in Upper Freehold.

Two alleged victims of clergy sex abuse on Monday described the decision to reinstate a retired priest accused of having two boys masturbate in front of him back in the 1960s as a "blatant" example of the Albany Diocesan Misconduct Board's inability to eradicate corruption, immorality and pedophilia within the church. The Albany Diocese's over-the-phone announcement on Friday of the clearing of Rev. Louis Douglas for a third time came just one day before the Albany Diocese reinstated Schenectady priest Rev. Alan Jupin and removed Troy priest Rev. James McNerney amid allegations he sexually abused a minor in the 1980s....

<p>A Catholic Church investigator will interview people claiming to have information about a retired priest in Wilmington whom the board cleared last week of decades-old sex abuse allegations.</p> <p>The Rev. Louis E. Douglas moved to Wilmington in 1996 after retiring from the Albany, N.Y., diocese three years earlier.</p>