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Scott Healey - 28 yesterday - was then sentenced by Common Pleas Judge Thomas Dempsey to six to 12 months of house arrest, followed by three years' probation and 100 hours of community service.
Healey was director of institutional advancement at the Holmesburg school, on Torresdale Avenue near Cottman, from October 2005 to August 2007.
The victim, now 18 and a college freshman, was not in court yesterday.
At a Family Court preliminary hearing in March, she testified that the relationship with Healey lasted from January to June 2007, when she was a junior. Healey started text-messaging her, then invited her to his office in the Alumnae House building, which is detached from the school.
During that period, his physical contact with her escalated from touching her private parts to having her perform oral sex on him, she said.
She said the relationship had been consensual.
Assistant District Attorney Catharine Thurston said after yesterday's proceeding that the victim's mother read her daughter's impact statement in court.
In it, the victim expressed the pain she felt from Healey's actions and from the subsequent publicity of the case.
"I have never felt anything so distressing or so hurtful than what I felt during the last two years of my high school education," she wrote.
Defense attorney Fortunato Perri Jr. said after yesterday's plea that Healey had "acknowledged how his behavior has impacted the victim, and he has accepted responsibility."
The judge ordered Healey to perform his community service at a shelter for abused women, and if that can't be set up, then at a homeless shelter, Thurston said. The judge also imposed a stay-away order from the victim for the length of Healey's probation. *
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