Child Sex Abuse Lands Former Chester County Teacher In Jail

WEST CHESTER — A former elementary school teacher was sentenced Monday in the Chester County Justice Center to 1½ to three years in prison on charges of sexual abuse of a student.

Luis Morales, 58, of West Chester pleaded guilty before Judge Analisa Sondergaad to sexual assault of a child, endangering the welfare of children, and institutional sexual assault at Nottingham Elementary School in Oxford.

Morales was charged in August 2021 with sexual assault after a student reported being abused as a third- and fourth-grader.

The sentence was based on a plea agreement between the prosecution and Morales’ attorney, Peter Kratsa of the West Chester law firm of MacElree Harvey.

According to the criminal complaint:

• In June 2021, a 14-year-old child reported being sexually abused by Morales, her English as a Second Language teacher, while she was a student at Nottingham Elementary School in Oxford between 2014 and 2016.

• Police said the victim reported the teacher asked her to stay after school and sexually abused her.
• The abuse stopped in 2016 when the student graduated from fourth grade.