Ex-house parent charged with abusing foreign students jailed

PENNSYLVANIA
Daily Journal

EBENSBURG, Pa. — A former house parent at a Pennsylvania Catholic school has been jailed on charges he sexually assaulted two Chinese international students he supervised.

Twenty-eight-year-old John Bowman Thornberry, of Mills River, North Carolina, was arrested last week and is being held in Cambria County in lieu of $250,000 bail pending a preliminary hearing next week.

Thornberry was removed in February from his job overseeing Chinese international students at Bishop Carroll High School in Ebensburg.

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