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Sunday, may 26
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Matthew Bateman
Police & Fire
Deputy Fire Chief Molested 15-Year-Old Volunteer For Months In PA: Police Papers
A high-ranking firefighter in Delaware County is accused of courting, grooming, and inappropriately touching a 16-year-old volunteer for a period of months, according to the affidavit obtained by Daily Voice. Matthew Bateman, the 28-year-old Deputy Chief of the Folcroft Fire Company, is charged with institutional sexual abuse of a minor and more than a dozen related counts, state court records show. Police wrote in the affidavit that Bateman had carried on an increasingly inappropriate relationship with a teenage boy who was working as a junior firefighter with the company over a…