BOLIVAR, Pa. — A staff member at the Outside In alternative education residential school in Westmoreland County is facing charges after state police say she showed nude and sexually explicit photos to two student residents in her custody.
Samantha Jamison, 39, was charged with disseminating explicit sexual material to a minor, tampering with evidence, harassment and corruption of minors.
“There’s no tolerance for something like this,” said Trooper Steve Limani of the Pennsylvania State Police.
Troopers say Jamison showed naked and sexually inappropriate photos of herself to boys in her custody while she was an employee at the Outside In school in Boliver. That’s a residential alternative education school for young boys who are there through Children and Youth Services or ordered there by the courts.
“She’s in a position of authority over minors, and in these cases, you’re talking about a 12 [or] 13-year-old. That’s young. That’s a young person and then you’re subjecting them to naked photographs of yourself?” Limani said.
According to state police, Jamison took a student resident to the emergency room after a fight at the Outside In school in October. While in a room there, police say Jamison showed the boy a nude photo of her while she was scrolling on her phone, slowing down on the inappropriate images, in what troopers say the boy said felt like a way to draw his attention to the picture and believed she was “fishing for compliments.”
In October, troopers say a similar situation happened with another student resident when Jamison took him to a MedExpress.
Troopers said when Jamison let them search her phone, she told them she didn’t have nude photographs on there.
But, police said they found them in the recently deleted folder.
“One of the pictures in particular was something that was described to us by one of the residents,” Limani said.
Troopers also say there was another photo on her phone taken at the school.
“With her training and her background, there’s no, there’s at no point in time would she ever think this is appropriate,” Limani said.
Jamison hasn’t been taken into custody. Troopers said she’s expected to turn herself in next month at her arraignment. Channel 11 reached out to the Outside In administration and went to the school’s offices on Wednesday. So far, the school has not commented.
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