BUXTON — The School Administrative District 6 board met privately for more than two hours Wednesday evening, days after news broke that the superintendent’s son, hired earlier this year as an educational technician, had been charged with sexually assaulting a student in another district.

The board took no action, but issued a short statement after the session saying it is seeking “a prompt resolution.”

“The Board is aware of the community’s concern regarding the District’s nepotism policy and recent allegations concerning a former employee of our school system,” the statement says. “We will be working with our legal counsel to gather relevant information to ensure that we have all of the facts. The Board is committed to bringing this matter to a prompt resolution for the good of our school system.”

Before going into executive session around 6 p.m., board Chairwoman Rebecca Bowley said she had no comment.

The statement was read by board member Ansel Stevens; Bowley said that was at the request of the board. Stevens refused to comment beyond the statement.

The board did not say why it was going into executive session, other than to meet with attorney Peter Felmly. When asked by a board member who Felmly represents, Bowley specified that Felmly represents the board.

District officials have not commented on the details of the situation involving former ed tech Zachariah Sherburne, whose father is Superintendent Frank Sherburne. Bowley has refused to say, for example, whether the superintendent had a role in his son’s hiring, which would violate the district’s anti-nepotism policy, or whether Zachariah Sherburne quit or was fired.

SAD 6 hired Sherburne as an ed tech at Buxton Center Elementary School on Feb. 8.

Frank Sherburne was not at Wednesday’s meeting, nor were any members of the public. He has not answered questions about his son’s employment in SAD 6, which encompasses Buxton, Hollis, Limington, Standish and Frye Island.

Zachariah Sherburne, 23, is charged with gross sexual assault, a felony, and sexual abuse of a minor, a misdemeanor. According to an arrest affidavit, on Feb. 12 he engaged in “a sexual act” with a 16-year-old girl who was a student in SAD 55, at Sacopee Valley High School in Hiram, where Sherburne was employed as an ed tech. Because Sherburne was employed there, he had “disciplinary authority” over her, the court document alleges.

Sherburne’s attorney, Allan Lobozzo of Lewiston, has said his client was never the girl’s teacher and would not have had disciplinary authority over her.

Sherburne told a detective that he was drinking alcohol when he had sex with the teenager at the Kezar Falls Fire Department, where he was a volunteer firefighter. The teenager is now pregnant, and she said Sherburne is the father, the affidavit says.