A school music instructor from Kent, Connecticut has been charged with sexually assaulting two children during private lessons in New York.
The Special Victims Squad of the Nassau County Police Department in New York arrested Kenton Burt, 62 of Kent, on Thursday afternoon at his place of employment, Burt Music School in Hicksville, New York.
Burt was employed as a music instructor at the school and is accused of sexually abusing two female students between the ages of 9 and 14 several times during private lessons between January 2012 and March 2015, police said.
He has been charged with two counts of first-degree sexual abuse and will be arraigned on Friday at First District Court in Hempstead.
Detectives ask anyone who was a victim of Burt to call the Special Victims Squad at 516-573-4022.
