JAMES CITY — A student who accused a Warhill High School teacher of sexual assault said he wrote her love letters, told her he loved her and “put his mouth on her face,” according to court documents.
Andre Scione, 35, of Toano, was arrested and charged on Monday with two counts of sexual assault and three counts of assault and battery of a minor, James City County police said. Police said a student first came forward last October, but that the alleged behavior started in 2024 when three female students attended Toano Middle School, where Scione was working at the time.
One student said Scione “continously grazzed (cq) her buttocks” throughout the 2024-25 school year at the middle school, according a criminal complaint filed in Williamsburg-James City County Juvenile & Domestic Relations Court on Monday.
The complaint also said that Scione kissed another student’s forehead in June 2025.
Someone applied for a protective order on a student’s behalf against Scione around the time police began investigating, but the petition for the order was later withdrawn. An affidavit for the order states that the student claimed Scione had been “grooming her and touching her.” Besides writing her love letters in the notes app on his cell phone, he “has put his mouth on her face, hugged her for extended period of time, smells her, taken photos of her in class, and made inappropriate comments to her.”
After working as a math teacher at Toano Middle for the 2024-25 school year, Scione moved to Warhill High for the 2025-26 school year, according to the Williamsburg-James City County school division
The court documents state that Scione was at least one student’s math teacher in middle school and at Warhill. In October, the student claimed that Scione “grabbed her arm and pulled back towards him,” according to the criminal complaint.
Another student said Scione grabbed her backpack while she was walking away from him on one occasion, and on another, he “grazed her buttocks with his hand after removing his arm from around her shoulders,” the complaint said. The student, who was 15 or younger, “advised both times were unwanted and made her feel uncomfortable.”
Scione was placed on administrative leave on Oct. 2 after the investigation began and remains on leave, said school division spokeswoman Kara Wall.
Scione was no longer being held at the Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail on Thursday evening and was out on bail, an online court information system showed.
Anyone with information concerning the case is encouraged to contact James City County Police Department’s investigations unit at 757-259-5152. Anonymous callers can contact the Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP or submit tips online at P3Tips.com.
James W. Robinson, 757-799-0621, james.robinson@virginiamedia.com
