New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu has signed a bill making it illegal for adults in the NH school system to have sexual relationships with students, reports WMUR.
The bill was reportedly filed in response to a former Concord High School teacher’s arrest for sexually assaulting a student. The bill was written by a Republican State Representative from Derry, Katherine Prudhomme-O’Brien. The bill reportedly was stalled for months after it reached the Senate.
Sununu states that he pushed not to let another school year pass without signing the bill into law. “It’s one of those pieces of legislation you would assume would already be there, right?,” said Sununu. “That kids would be protected from teachers or other adults taking advantage of them in that position of authority in a school, of course, but we had nothing on the books.”
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