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Cops: Mom’s stripping disrupts NY school assembly

Feb 15, 2013, 9:36 PM

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – Police say a mother who got on stage and started to strip during an upstate New York school assembly is facing child endangerment and lewdness charges.

Albany police say 24-year-old Aydrea Meaders was arrested at North Albany Academy on Friday morning.

They say school staff told them the assembly was halted and the cafeteria cleared after Meaders began dancing onstage and took off some of her clothes.

She’s charged with seven counts of endangering the welfare of a child and one count of public lewdness.

An Albany City Court clerk says Meaders was arraigned Friday afternoon and ordered held on $3,000 bail. She doesn’t have a lawyer yet.

The North Albany Academy is a prekindergarten through eighth grade school in the Albany district.

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