Foreign exchange student charged with sex assault

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By WFSB Staff

STRATFORD, CT (WFSB) -

A foreign exchange student staying with a family in Stratford has been arrested for having a sexual relationship with a member of a his host family.

Police said Filip Walica, 19, of the Czech Republic, admitted to having sex with the 14-year-old girl.

He was kicked out of the family's home and had been staying at a motel in Milford at the time of his arrest.

Walica has been charged with 18 counts of second-degree sexual assault and one count of risk of injury to a minor.

He's being held on $250,000 bond and is due in court Aug. 21.

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