A teenage girl sexually assaulted by a 48-year-old man ended up missing a lot of school after the Sept. 14 incident.

Meetings with police and the Northampton County Children, Youth and Families Division are responsible for some of the absences, the 15-year-old girl's mother says. Emotional upheaval is responsible for the rest. Even when her daughter was in school, her mother says, she wasn't focused on learning.

As a result, the girl failed math, English and gym, meaning she'd have to repeat her ninth-grade year at Liberty High School unless she attends summer school.The victim's mother says she started receiving phone calls and notices about her daughter's absences, but Bethlehem Area School District officials did not respond as expected when she explained the situation to them.

The girl is willing to attend summer school, but her mother couldn't afford the $400 tuition by Wednesday -- a deadline set by the the district.

The victim's mother says the district didn't give her enough time to come up with the money -- she's a single mom who also cares for her ailing mother -- and refused to extend the deadline until Friday.

Friday is when the man who sexually assaulted the girl, Osvaldo Correa, of Bethlehem, is being sentenced. The victim's mother had hoped the judge would make her daughter's tuition part of his restitution.

Crime Victims Council of the Lehigh Valley Executive Director Suzanne Beck said the mother and daughter shouldn't have to wrangle with the district over the education of a child.

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