Isaac Vescovi

PATTON — At a school board meeting Tuesday, Cambria Heights School District officials accepted the resignation of Isaac Vescovi, a former high school mathematics teacher accused of having a sexual relationship with a student.

Vescovi, 29, of Patton Borough, is charged with four felony counts of intercourse/sexual contact with a student, corruption of minors, criminal use of a communication facility and unlawful contact with a minor.

On Oct. 7, Vescovi was remanded to the Cambria County Prison but was released Oct. 8 after posting 10% of $300,000 bail, according to court records.

On Oct. 15, Vescovi appeared in front of Magisterial District Judge Michael Zungali in Hastings Borough and waived his right to a preliminary hearing. He is expected to appear in Cambria County Court, but a docket with Vescovi’s case information has not been posted online as of Tuesday’s meeting.

Vescovi retained Terry Graffius of the Johnstown-based Leventry, Haschak & Rodkey, LLC law firm to represent him in court, online records show.

According to the affidavit of probable cause, Vescovi allegedly began communicating with the 17-year-old victim through the school’s email system. The affidavit states the conversations became sexual in nature, and they exchanged explicit photos of each other after Vescovi allegedly asked the victim for her Snapchat username, according to court documents.

The victim told state police Vescovi had sexual intercourse with her at his house in Patton, according to the affidavit, which states they would occasionally meet in Altoona and allegedly exchanged more than 4,000 texts and Snapchat messages.

The affidavit states the victim told police she discussed the relationship with Vescovi, who allegedly mentioned self-harm if he were to get in trouble because of their “inappropriate relationship.”

Superintendent Ken Kerchenske said district officials filed a ChildLine report when they were made aware of the allegations against Vescovi, which started the police investigation into “rumors” of the alleged relationship.

At the meeting Tuesday, Kerchenske and Pat Fanelli, the district’s solicitor, said Vescovi was discussed briefly during the board’s executive session for personnel matters.

“We discussed there was a resignation that was offered and it was accepted,” Fanelli said.

Vescovi’s resignation was effective Oct. 18, Kerchenske said, noting the district will soon advertise for a full-time teaching position to fill the vacancy.

“There’s a teacher right now who’s teaching those classes,” Kerchenske said.

Mirror Staff Writer Matt Churella is at 814-946-7520.