Police: Sunday school teacher had sex with girl

August 20, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Associated Press

ECONOMY, Pa.

Police have charged a western Pennsylvania Sunday school teacher with twice having sex with a 12-year-old girl before class on church property.

Nineteen-year-old Thomas Law, of New Sewickley Township, is charged with aggravated indecent assault and other crimes in incidents last August, when he was 18 and still a Sunday school teacher at New Hope Evangelical Lutheran Church in Economy.

Economy police began investigating after the girl’s mother found a note earlier this month about the alleged relationship with Law.

The Rev. Martin Galbraith said church officials learned of the incidents from police only this week. He said the church is grieving, and “Our prayers go out to the girl and the family and all who are hurting.”