Philadelphia

Urszula Jankowska: Teacher busted for allegations of sexual relationship with student

The Williamsburg High School for Architecture and Design where Jankowska was an English teacher.

A Department of Education teacher has been arrested in the midst of allegations that she had a sexual relationship with a female student.

Urszula Jankowska, 33, is charged with criminal sex act, forcible touching and endangering the welfare of a child, according to the NYPD.

The student reportedly told a school counselor that she carried on a three-year “intimate relationship” with Jankowska, beginning in 2008 when she was 13-years-old, according to the New York Daily News.

Jankowska was arrested while at work as an English teacher at Williamsburg High School for Architecture and Design in Brooklyn. She is currently suspended from her job.


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