NORRISTOWN — A Chester County woman is headed to jail for embezzling more than $270,000 while she was a school administrator at the Penn Christian Academy in East Norriton Township, betraying the small school community that trusted her to the point the school was forced to close.
Katherine Ann Paprocka, 38, of the unit block of Lynne Circle, Paoli, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court to 10- to-23-months in the county jail after she pleaded guilty to charges of theft by unlawful taking, theft by deception, forgery, theft by failure to make required disposition of funds received and impersonating a notary public in connection with incidents that occurred between July 2020 and December 2021 while she was employed as the senior administrator at the private, religious school.
The school could no longer operate financially and closed after the theft, according to prosecutors…