The Valley Forge Military Academy guidance counselor accused of providing alcohol to two cadets and performing oral sex on a 16-year-old cadet has turned herself into authorities Thursday morning, but she denies the sex charges against her.
Thirty-year-old Symantha Hicks arrived at Radnor District Justice in Wayne, Pa. just before 9 a.m. Thursday to surrender to police, reports NBC Philadelphia’s Deanna Durante who was at the scene.
"Mrs. Hicks is remorseful and regrets the circumstances that have resulted in criminal charges," her attorney, Richard Hark, told Main Line Media News.
In court Thursday morning, Hark repeated that Hicks regrets her actions but said that some of the charges against her are not true.
Hark said that Hicks admits and regrets allowing the students to have access to alcohol, but she flatly denies having any sexual contact with one of the minors.
Hicks, whose school biography lists her as married with three children in Horsham, was fired from the academy in December after Radnor Police began investigating the alcohol and oral sex claims, according to a police affidavit.
Hicks faces charges of unlawful contact with a minor, 11 counts of corruption of minors and 10 counts of selling or furnishing alcohol to minors.
