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Former Scranton Officer, School Resource Officer Accused Of Abusing Students Over Years: PA AG Former Scranton Officer, School Resource Officer Accused Of Abusing Students Over Years: PA AG
Former Scranton Officer, School Resource Officer Accused Of Abusing Students Over Years: PA AG A former Scranton police officer assigned as a school resource officer at West Scranton High School is facing 46 charges of sexually abusing five students over several years, Attorney General Michelle Henry announced on Friday, Dec. 20. Stephen J. Carroll, 49, has been charged with rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, statutory sexual assault, official oppression, and institutional sexual assault, among other offenses, according to the Pennsylvania State Police and Attorney General's Office. The alleged crimes occurred between 2009 and recent years while Carroll was employed as a S…
Student Claims Guards Assaulted Them, Sues PA Middle School: Lawsuit Student Claims Guards Assaulted Them, Sues PA Middle School: Lawsuit
Student Claims Guards Assaulted Them, Sues PA Middle School: Lawsuit A student in an Allentown middle school filed a lawsuit claiming they were assaulted by guards, leading to severe injuries, the legal document states. The lawsuit claims that Francis D. Raub Middle School and Allentown School District created an environment that led to the assault, according to the legal document. The middle school's principal, Jose Delgado, and a former superintendent, John Stanford, were also named as defendants.  The case was moved to federal court on Monday, Nov. 4 after initially being filed in the Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas on Friday, Oct. 4. It stems f…
Two More Arrested In PA School Bus Shooting: DA Two More Arrested In PA School Bus Shooting: DA
Two More Arrested In PA School Bus Shooting: DA Two more people have been arrested for shooting at a school bus full of students in Coatesville, Chester County officials announced on Sunday, Nov. 10. Jaki White-Marshall, 17, of Coatesville, was arrested and is set to be charged as an adult for allegedly firing at a bus full of high school students, the Chester County District Attorney revealed on Friday, Oct. 11, the day following the incident, as Daily Voice previously reported. Two additional individuals, Gabriel Johnson, 17, and Jose Medina, 20, both of Coatesville, have since been arrested in connection with the shooting, officials a…
Outraged Parents Blast Officials At Lehigh County Board Meeting After School Employee's Arrest Outraged Parents Blast Officials At Lehigh County Board Meeting After School Employee's Arrest
Outraged Parents Blast Officials At Lehigh County Board Meeting After School Employee's Arrest Outraged parents showed up to a school board meeting in Lehigh County to blast officials after news broke that a teacher had been arrested for secretly recording a student undressing in a school auditorium. Laura Warmkessel was just one of those parents. "You guys sit up here the majority of the time patting yourselves on the back and congratulating each other on how wonderful this school district is, but under the radar letting these monsters into our system, repeatedly," Warmkessel told the Parkland School District Board of Directors on Tuesday, Oct. 15. Click here to watch the meeting. …
345 Offenses As Adult For Teen School Bus Shooter: Chester DA 345 Offenses As Adult For Teen School Bus Shooter: Chester DA
345 Offenses As Adult For Teen School Bus Shooter: Chester DA Students were on a school bus when gunshots came through the windshield, Chester County officials announced on Thursday night, Oct. 10.  Jaki White-Marshall, 17, of Coatesville, has been arrested and will be charged as an adult for shooting at a bus full of high school students, the Chester County District Attorney announced the day after the shooting.  The shooting happened in the 300 block of Charles Street near Hope Avenue and Madison Street around 3 p.m., according to the Coatesville Area School District and the DA.  White-Marshall was one of four men…
Non-Verbal Autistic 8-Year-Old Boy Bruised By Cumberland County School Aide: Affidavit Non-Verbal Autistic 8-Year-Old Boy Bruised By Cumberland County School Aide: Affidavit
Non-Verbal Autistic 8-Year-Old Boy Bruised By Cumberland County School Aide: Affidavit An aide to a non-verbal elementary school student in Cumberland County has been charged with endangering him after other adults witnessed the abuse and the boy came home with bruises on his face, according to court documents obtained by Daily Voice on Monday, Sept. 30. Jessica Ann Rachelle Piper, 36, of Enola, was charged, arrested, and had a preliminary arraignment on Friday, Sept. 26 after an 8-year-old boy came home from East Pennsboro Elementary School with bruises, township police detailed in an affidavit of probable cause. Piper was employed by Substitute Teacher Services, Inc., …
HOMICIDE: Details Released In Chambersburg Police Incident (UPDATE) HOMICIDE: Details Released In Chambersburg Police Incident (UPDATE)
Homicide: Details Released In Chambersburg Police Incident (Update) An "active police incident" that shuttered a neighborhood in Chambersburg on Tuesday, Sept. 17 turned out to be part of a homicide investigation launched the previous night, police explained.  The public was asked to avoid the area of Nicholson Square Village "for an active police incident" at 11:16 a.m. the department stated in its original release. The exact intersection listed in the release is Scotland Avenue and Woodstock Road. The incident was resolved shortly before 1 p.m., according to an updated release.  "This was an isolated incident, there is no da…
Students Sexted, Touched By Steelton-Highspire HS Band Volunteer Now Facing Charges: Affidavit Students Sexted, Touched By Steelton-Highspire HS Band Volunteer Now Facing Charges: Affidavit
Students Sexted, Touched By Steelton-Highspire HS Band Volunteer Now Facing Charges: Affidavit A volunteer with the Steelton-Highspire High School band is wanted by the police for sending sexually-explicit messages to students, according to a release by Swatara Township Police and court documents obtained by Daily Voice.  Raymond Earnes Green Jr., 31, of Steelton, known at the high school as "Rocky Rozay" used his Instagram account with the username beatgriffey6 to send sexual messages to students, the police alleged in the affidavit of probable cause.  Green would be at band practices, games, and hanging out after the games — and had been flirting with a girl under 16…