{"id":267236,"date":"2026-08-18T01:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T01:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267236\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T01:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T01:30:08","slug":"former-highlands-teacher-sean-dicers-court-appearance-postponed-6-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267236\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Highlands teacher Sean Dicer\u2019s court appearance postponed 6 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An appearance in Allegheny County Court by former Highlands teacher Sean Dicer has been pushed to February.<\/p>\n<p>Dicer faces multiple felony sex-related offenses allegedly dealing with juveniles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re still in the process of getting all the discovery, and there are a lot of pretrial motions that have to be addressed,\u201d said Dicer\u2019s attorney Duke George.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re still working on getting him acquitted as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dicer is scheduled for court Feb. 3 before Judge Jaime Hickton. County Judge Edward Borkowski in January remanded Dicer to house arrest in lieu of county jail.<\/p>\n<p>Allegheny County Police in December charged Dicer, a district teacher for nearly 20 years, with involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, unlawful contact with a minor and sexual extortion.<\/p>\n<p>In January, police filed separate charges against Dicer that include indecent assault, child endangerment, unlawful contact with a minor and child corruption. Those charges stem from alleged incidents said to have happened in 2007 at the former Fairmount Elementary School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An appearance in Allegheny County Court by former Highlands teacher Sean Dicer has been pushed to February. Dicer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-267236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}