A special education teacher arrested Thursday for allegedly sexually abusing a mentally disabled Montgomery County student has parents at the school worried there will be further cuts to a program already on the rocks.

Lindsey Froehlich, 26, of Germantown, had been working at the Regional Institute for Children and Adolescents for two years before she was charged this week with inappropriately touching a 16-year-old student, Montgomery police said. The student was among 80 who live at the school full-time, and the contact was allegedly initiated by Froehlich.