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4th Grader Shut In Closet By Teacher, Ridiculed By Peers During Music Class In NJ: Lawsuit 4th Grader Shut In Closet By Teacher, Ridiculed By Peers During Music Class In NJ: Lawsuit
4th Grader Shut In Closet By Teacher, Ridiculed By Peers During Music Class In NJ: Lawsuit Two parents have filed a lawsuit alleging that an elementary school teacher in Wall Township locked their 11-year-old child in a closet for laughing during class, and another teacher ordered another student to delete a recording of the alleged incident. The suit (see attachment) filed Friday, Oct. 13 in Monmouth County Superior Court alleges that Central Elementary School music teacher Jessica Berube shut their fourth grader in a storage closet on April 8. 2022, for laughing. Daily Voice reached out to the Wall Township Board of Education, the district's superintendent, and Central Elementa…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Bartender At Celeb Chef's Jersey Shore Restaurant Groped By Drunken Patron, Lawsuit Says Bartender At Celeb Chef's Jersey Shore Restaurant Groped By Drunken Patron, Lawsuit Says
Bartender At Celeb Chef's Jersey Shore Restaurant Groped By Drunken Patron, Lawsuit Says A 19-year-old bartender at celebrity chef Victor Rallo’s Jersey Shore restaurant says she was groped by a drunken friend of her manager — and her bosses did nothing to help, according to a newly-filed lawsuit. The bartender, identified only as R.N., was working at Surf BBQ in Rumson on Oct. 28, 2022 when a "much older patron" named Daniel Boswell, a regular customer, groped both of her breasts, according to the suit filed in March 2023, in Monmouth County Superior Court. "When the Surf BBQ Defendants learned of this serious and disturbing assault, they failed to take any remedial …

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by Cecilia Levine
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Flo Rida's Son In ICU After 5-Story Fall From Jersey City Window, Mom Taking Legal Action Flo Rida's Son In ICU After 5-Story Fall From Jersey City Window, Mom Taking Legal Action
Flo Rida's Son In ICU After 5-Story Fall From Jersey City Window, Mom Taking Legal Action The mother of rapper Flo Rida's 6-year-old disabled son is taking legal action after the boy fell five stories from a window of their Jersey City building earlier this month, leaving him seriously injured. Alexis Adams claims building management was negligent and careless and did not install size guards on windows, causing her son, Zohar Dillard, to fall out onto the pavement below, according to court documents filed by Steven P. Haddad, of the Haddad law firm. Zohar DillardSteven P. Haddad Zohar, who was diagnosed with autism and a brain condition, suffered a shattered pelvis, left met…

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by Sam Barron & Cecilia Levine
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Bicyclist Seriously Hurt When Driver Suddenly Opened Car Door In Atlantic County: Lawsuit Bicyclist Seriously Hurt When Driver Suddenly Opened Car Door In Atlantic County: Lawsuit
Bicyclist Seriously Hurt When Driver Suddenly Opened Car Door In Atlantic County: Lawsuit A bicyclist has filed a lawsuit against the driver who she says suddenly opened the door of a vehicle directly in front of her, causing her to crash and suffer serious injuries while out for a ride in Atlantic County. Tracy Morgan says in court papers that the driver opened the door directly in her path on East Church Street in Absecon, just before 3 p.m. on Sept. 28, 2022. Morgan rode into the door "with great force" and suffered injuries to her clavicle, pelvis, skull and tailbone, in the "dooring accident," court papers filed in December 2022 in Atlantic County say. The lawsuit alleges …

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by Jon Craig
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$100M Claims Filed By Family Of Drowned Bayonne Brothers: Report $100M Claims Filed By Family Of Drowned Bayonne Brothers: Report
$100M Claims Filed By Family Of Drowned Bayonne Brothers: Report The family of a pair of brothers who drowned earlier this month at a pool in Bayonne have filed two civil claims for $50 million each, NJ Advance Media reports. Three lifeguards were on-duty at the Lincoln Community School on June 8 when 16-year-old Jack Jiang and 19-year-old Chu Ming Zheng drowned, police previously said. The family's attorneys maintain the brothers' deaths were a result of negligence, NJ.com says. Police said only that the brothers were in the deep end of the pool when they were spotted in distress. A guard and two others removed them from the pool and immediately b…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Long Branch Sues Pop-Up Party Promoters: Report Long Branch Sues Pop-Up Party Promoters: Report
Long Branch Sues Pop-Up Party Promoters: Report Long Branch has sued six online party promoters for advertising an upcoming pop-up party in hopes of preventing it turning into one that caused chaos last month, the New Jersey Globe reported. Wavell Thompson of East Orange, Kevin Small of Middlesex, Jayson Glasper of Tintin Falls Akeil T. Anderson, Semya Gill, and Jaylen Courten, a minor, failed to obtain a permit in violation of a local ordinance, created a public nuisance, negligence, and civil conspiracy, the outlet said. A May party drew a crowd of nearly 5,000 young people and resulted in fights, arrests and disrupted local busin…

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by Jon Craig
Police & Fire
Door Lock Could've Prevented NJ Family Murder-Suicide, Lawsuit Says Door Lock Could've Prevented NJ Family Murder-Suicide, Lawsuit Says
Door Lock Could've Prevented NJ Family Murder-Suicide, Lawsuit Says A new lawsuit filed by the family of a New Jersey woman and her two children killed apparently by her husband in a murder-suicide at home says that it all could have been prevented with the replacement of a door lock, NJ Advance Media reports. Ruth Reyes Severino, 30, and her kids were found stabbed to death at the apartment she formerly shared with her estranged husband Eugenio Severino at Madole Place in Penns Grove, in February 2020, CBS says. Severino, 54, later hanged himself in an area park. Ruth Reyes Severino, Eugenio Severino, and their two children.Ruth Esther Reyes Perez (Sev…

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by Valerie Musson
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Alumnus Claims NJ Teachers Sexually Abused Him Nearly 50 Years Ago Alumnus Claims NJ Teachers Sexually Abused Him Nearly 50 Years Ago
Alumnus Claims NJ Teachers Sexually Abused Him Nearly 50 Years Ago A relatively new law in New Jersey allowed a man to sue the Englewood school district for what he said was sexual abuse by teachers more than 50 years ago. The man identified as “D.H.” in court papers contends that he was groomed as a victim, beginning when an Engle Street School teacher tackled and held him down on a 6th-grade overnight trip to Montreal in 1967. The teacher "held him down with the full weight of his body," the plaintiff contends. The same teacher then got him and other students to drink booze and smoke cigarettes with him in his apartment, the suit alleges. The teacher -…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Toms River Man's 3-Hour Uber Ride Home From Senior Facility Led To His Death, Lawsuit Says Toms River Man's 3-Hour Uber Ride Home From Senior Facility Led To His Death, Lawsuit Says
Toms River Man's 3-Hour Uber Ride Home From Senior Facility Led To His Death, Lawsuit Says A family claims a three-hour Uber ride led to their elderly relative's death, according to a federal lawsuit. The family is suing a Pennsylvania senior care facility, accusing the center of discharging an 81-old-man from Toms River. The lawsuit alleges that with Eugene Hamill was sent home without proper notice because Twin Cedars Senior Living in Shohola, Pennsylvania couldn’t profit off Hamill staying there. The wrongful death and negligence lawsuit was filed Tuesday in federal court in Scranton.  Hamill reportedly suffered a heart attack and stroke prompted by the length…

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by Jon Craig