Former York para pleads no contest to reduced charges in abuse case

LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) – A former paraeducator at York Elementary School pleaded no contest on Tuesday to abusing a child.

Scott Velasquez-Lopez, 23, was then found guilty of two counts of misdemeanor child abuse.

The charges were reduced from two counts of third-degree sexual assault of a child under a plea deal.

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Velasquez-Lopez was arrested in January after a school administrator reported an assault.

He inappropriately touched a 6-year-old boy off the school’s campus, according to court documents.

Velasquez-Lopez will be sentenced on Aug. 26.

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