A former counselor and swim coach at Malvern Prep School was arrested Wednesday on charges of sexually assaulting a student at the private, all-boys high school. Emily Feeney, 40, of Wayne, is accused of attempting to seduce a 16-year-old student swimmer by various means while working as the school's director of college counseling, including promising to help him secure admission to Harvard University, the Chester County district attorney said Wednesday. Feeney was charged with institutional sexual assault, corruption of minors, and related charges. Starting in the summer of 2014, Feeney allegedly sent the boy "highly sexualized" text messages and emails, including photos of herself in states of undress. She allegedly also kissed the boy. He repeatedly told her to stop, the district attorney said. 
 
 Feeney, who formerly worked at Princeton University and was hired by Malvern Prep in 2013, has been fired by the school, the district attorney said. 
 
 "I'm not interested in you end of story I'm 16 I'm not into you," the student wrote in one message to Feeney, according to the criminal complaint. 
 
 When Feeney put the boy forward as a candidate for the Harvard swim team and received a favorable email back from Harvard personnel, she allegedly wrote to the student, "You . . . owe me big time. And no high fives." 
 
 Feeney appeared to have sent the boy a series of emails on her school email account in January begging him to talk to her and threatening to call him into her office, according to the criminal complaint. 
 
 "To not say hello when we pass is not right," she wrote. A following email read: "You are gorgeous and this is killing me. Please talk to me." 
 
 This is the fourth such arrest in Chester County this summer. A teacher at the Collegium Charter School in Exton; a teacher at the Phelps School, an all-boys school in Malvern; and the head of the Concept School, a private school for children with learning or social difficulties in Thornbury Township, were all arrested in June and July on charges related to sexual abuse of students. 
 
 "As schools prepare for the start of classes, this serves as an important reminder that certain safeguards should be in place to protect students," District Attorney Thomas Hogan said in a statement. 
 
 Feeney previously worked in admissions at Princeton University, Barnard College, and Columbia Business School, where she also coached the women's swim team, according to a 2013 interview with her on the Friars Lantern, Malvern Prep's student-run news site. Her father, brother, and other relatives attended Malvern Prep, she said then. 
 
 "I hope to give students all the support and guidance they need through the sometimes confusing world of college admissions," she said in that interview. 
 
 Feeney was arraigned Wednesday and posted bail, which was set at $75,000. A hearing was scheduled for Sept. 2. 

 A guidance counselor at a prestigious private school in Chester County is accused of pursuing a teen student for sex, even promising him admission to Harvard University in an effort to coerce him.Emily Feeney, 40, of Wayne, Pa., was a swim coach and Director of College Counseling at Malvern Prep for two years. She has since been fired, District Attorney Tom Hogan said."The defendant was extraordinarily predatory in the way she attacked this 16-year-old boy, going after him again and again and again," said Hogan.Feeney had no comment as she turned herself in on Wednesday. Her lawyer, Michael Engle, said "She's understandably upset. These are serious charges and we're taking the matter very seriously."The investigation began on May 13th.The teen victim told investigators that Feeney, his coach and guidance counselor, had been sending him inappropriate emails and text messages since 2014, when he was 16 years old. At one point, Feeney kissed the boy, investigators say.The messages included a topless photo and other pictures of herself in various stages of undress, the D.A.'s office said.She also allegedly sent such messages such as "I adore you - always have, always will."Another allegedly read "If you ever cared about me, please don't shut me out. It's too painful."The victim told investigators he repeatedly told Feeney to stop, saying "I'm not interested in you end of story. I'm 16. I'm not into you."Despite the teen's rejections, Feeney continued her pursuit, the D.A. said, telling him she could use her connections to get the teen into Harvard.She even forwarded him a message from Harvard saying the teen was a candidate for the swim team, saying "you owe me big time."In another message, Feeney allegedly said "If you'd... just stop fighting and let it happen, you'd be a lot less uptight and much happier.""When it's happening between a 40-year-old adult and a 16-year-old child - with that difference in power and authority - that is the sort of sexual abuse that we worry about," said Hogan.Investigators said hundreds of emails were recovered after a search warrant. They say Feeney was sending messages from her Malvern Prep work email account.Feeney is charged with Institutional Sex Assault, Unlawful Contact with a Minor, Corruption of Minors and Indecent Assault.She was released on $7,500 bail.Malvern Prep said it is cooperating fully with the investigation.
– A Harvard graduate with an impeccable Ivy League resumé has been charged with repeatedly attempting to have sex with a student at an elite all-boys prep school in Pennsylvania, even promising the teen she would get him into her alma mater if he did what she wanted, the New York Daily News reports. Authorities say Malvern Prep director of college counseling and swim coach Emily Feeney, 40, started sending hundreds of messages to one of her 16-year-old swimmers last year, according to WPVI. These messages allegedly included risqué photos and pleas for the victim to reciprocate her feelings. "You are gorgeous, and this is killing me" read one such message, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer. Authorities say the victim repeatedly told Feeney to stop—at one point messaging her, "I'm 16. I'm not into you"—and an investigation was launched in May, WPVI reports. According to the Daily News, investigators discovered Feeney, who allegedly kissed the victim at one point, forwarded him a message from Harvard stating he was a top prospect for its swim team. She allegedly told the victim he "owed her big" for that and she wasn't talking about "high fives." Feeney was arrested Wednesday and charged with institutional sex assault and more for acts the district attorney calls "extraordinarily predatory." Feeney is the fourth school employee in Pennsylvania's Chester County to be charged with sexually abusing a student in the past three months, according to the Inquirer.