According to a new report, school administrators previously cleared the Connecticut lunch lady of having improper communications with students before she allegedly groomed and later sexually assaulted a teenage boy.
Andie Rosafort, a former part-time New Fairfield public schools employee, met with district officials over “concerns regarding social media and maintaining appropriate boundaries and communication with students,” according to emails and court documents obtained by Fox News Thursday.
According to an email sent between Rosafort and the middle school principal on December 1, 2022, worries about the 31-year-old started to circulate in late 2018.
“As we discussed, there was a report that insinuated some images were seen and/or shared with high school students from your social media account,” Gruetzner also said, adding a school investigation of the accusations determined that the content was not inappropriate,” according to the email.
The middle school principal then advised her that “caution should be exercised,” according to Fox News.
According to the email, Rosafort allegedly denied texting students directly during the meeting with school officials.
While working at the school, Rosafort posted makeup tutorials on a social media account for her cosmetics company, though it now seems the account has vanished, according to Fox News.
According to documents obtained by Fox News, school leaders were made aware of a “vague report possible inappropriate messages between a minor and Ms. Rosafort” in late November 2022 by a staff member, according to a letter school superintendent Kenneth Craw sent to the school board last month.
“The investigation did not produce any information that substantiated any inappropriate interactions between Ms. Rosafort and a minor,” Craw wrote following a school investigation that involved speaking to the minor involved, the teen’s family, and Rosafort, the outlet reported.
The “vague report” was reported to police, he claimed. She left her position in January.
According to reports, Craw wrote that two different students were involved in both the criminal case and the staff member’s report.
The married Rosafort is accused of three felonies, including second-degree sexual assault, using a computer to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity, and endangering children’s morals by posing a danger to minors.
Authorities claim that she groomed the boy before assaulting him sexually in her SUV.
According to an affidavit reviewed by WTNH, the school district reported Rosafort after the father of a friend of the alleged victim informed administrators that the child had been sexually assaulted at a party on January 13.
According to the police affidavit, a high school student accused Rosafort of contacting the victim on Instagram and Snapchat and conversing with freshmen boys online.
According to the affidavit, the alleged victim admitted to sending the teenager two nude photos of herself after the teen questioned whether she had sent the first one in error.
The boy claimed that at that point Rosafort asked for a naked picture of him and that she later sent him additional naked pictures and videos of herself.
Rosafort is charged with picking up the alleged victim from a party at a friend’s house on the night of the January party and engaging in “contact of a sexual nature” with the child.
According to the affidavit, communications between the lunch lady and the student did not start out inappropriately but allegedly changed when the alleged victim started high school in September 2022.
She turned herself in on February 20 and was later freed after posting a $100,000 bond.
She kept quiet about the accusations in front of her New Fairfield residence on Thursday as she was seen donning a green sweatshirt with the words Brewster Bears printed in white lettering.
