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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Allegheny County, PA) A former Highlands School District teacher accused of sexually assaulting his students is headed to trial. Fifty-three-year-old Sean Dicer pleaded not guilty during his formal arraignment yesterday in the Allegheny County Courthouse. According to Allegheny County Police, Dicer is accused of sexually assaulting two young boys at his home in 2021. The victims were eleven and twelve years old at the time. Court paperwork gave details of graphic accounts where a victim said that Dicer would buy gifts as well as paying the kids up to 20 dollars after performing sexual acts on one another while Dicer watched. Dicer resigned from his teaching position in 2022. If convicted on all of the charges against him, the maximum amount of time Dicer could face is seventy-nine years in prison. The criminal complaint also stated that Dicer performed sexual acts with one of the victims at least ten times. There were not any victims yesterday in Allegheny County Court, but Judge Jaime Hickton brought up the importance of not violating a “no contact” order that was put in place.