Posted on 08/21/2025 11:54:11 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A one-time Colorado “counselor of the year” is accused of sexually assaulting a female student over several years — and threatened to kill herself if the girl ever came forward, according to police.
Cassandra Poncelow, 40, met her accuser in her high school counseling office in the Poudre School District in Fort Collins, Colo. — and later began bringing her to her home for “sleepovers,” according to court documents obtained by 9News.
The student — who is now an adult — met with police in July and claimed she was assaulted more than 100 times over several years at Poncelow’s home.
Police did not say exactly when the alleged assaults occurred, but Poncelow worked for the school district from 2007 to 2024.
The student told police she felt like she wanted to die after the alleged sexual assault — but claimed Poncelow told her, “If you tell anyone, I’ll kill myself,” according to CBS News, citing the police report.
Poncelow — who has since become sober — later expressed shame, claiming she fell in love with the student while accepting that it “was not okay,” according to the police report.
Poncelow was named Colorado’s 2016 “counselor of the year” by the Colorado School Counseling Association and was a finalist for the American School Counselor of the Year award in 2018, the Coloradoan reported.
She was arrested Tuesday and is charged with sexual assault, sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust, criminal attempt to commit sexual exploitation of children and aggravated sexual assault on a client by a psychotherapist.
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Guilty!
It actually is nice, for her, but has very little bearing on how this tragic case will and must unfold. I always hope offenders make their peace with the Lord and improve their lives even if it is only to.live out their lives on death row or doing life w/o parole.
No pic of the now adult victim so we can compare the match up mentally?
Never trust a female “crack addict”.
No victim pics of minor (at the time) is pretty standard procedure................
Redhead. Follow the Matrix....
Bad ones...................
If I was assaulted in high school at a sleepover, I would find an excuse to not sleep over again, there, if I was otherwise too intimidated to tell anyone.
Why go 99 more times, really?
What a sweet looking girl, just the kind of lady a man might want to take home and have him/her meet his Momma.
GUILTY
Sometimes you can just look at someone and know...
But then people would be more motivated to hide their homosexuality - thus foiling our attempts to segregate them.
Regards,
Her parents were okay with their daughter going on a sleepover with an adult teacher?
Another Reason to Homeschool
Children should avoid the medical and mental health “professionals” in their schools like the plague. They are all crackpots unless proven otherwise and students are too immature to make that judgement.
You can’t spell psychotherapist without Psycho The Rapist.
Eat more tacos.
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