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Private School Student Pleads Not Guilty to Rape Charge: Nearby News

Police say a 19-year-old private school student raped a 14-year-old girl in a school classroom. BREAKING

NEW MILFORD, CT — A 19-year-old Florida teen charged with felony risk of injury to a child and felony second-degree sexual assault in May has pleaded not guilty on both charges, according to The News Times.

Samuel Jacob Thomas Elder, 19, of Gainesville, Fla., known as "Jake," has been charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in Kent on Feb. 19 at the Marvelwood School in the Spanish Classroom.

The girl yelled for Elder to stop, court documents stated, and later told her parents and school officials what had happened, the paper reported. He is due in Litchfield Superior Court on Oct. 28 to answer to the charges.

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