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Former WC Christian School Teacher Sentenced For Child Abuse: DA Former WC Christian School Teacher Sentenced For Child Abuse: DA
Former WC Christian School Teacher Sentenced For Child Abuse: DA A former fifth-grade teacher at the West Chester Christian School who abused a student will spend decades in prison, a judge has ruled.  Randy Boston, 65, of Shickshinny, was sentenced to 20 to 40 years for involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and related counts for which he had been convicted by a jury in August, said Chester County District Attorney Deb Ryan in a statement Tuesday, Jan. 10.  Detectives began investigating Boston after a 21-year-old man stepped forward in June 2021 to report having been abused by the teacher when he was a first grader at WCCS in 2007-2008,…

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by Mac Bullock
Police & Fire
Human Remains Found In Luzerne County Identified As Wilkes-Barre Teen Girl Who Vanished In 1969 Human Remains Found In Luzerne County Identified As Wilkes-Barre Teen Girl Who Vanished In 1969
Human Remains Found In Luzerne County Identified As Wilkes-Barre Teen Girl Who Vanished In 1969 Pennsylvania State Police have identified the human remains found in Luzerne County nearly 10 years ago as a teenage girl who went missing in 1969, they announced Tuesday, Oct. 4. The remains were discovered on Nov. 17, 2012, by individuals digging for relics on the grounds of a former coal-mining operation in Newport Township, state police said.  Authorities now know they belong to Joan Marie Dymond, who was 14 years old when she disappeared from Andover Street Park on June 25, 1969. An examination determined the remains were those of a female, estimated to be in her mid-te…

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by Nicole Acosta
Police & Fire
Driver Who Plowed Through Crowd Of People, Beat Mom Dead In PA: Reports Driver Who Plowed Through Crowd Of People, Beat Mom Dead In PA: Reports
Driver Who Plowed Through Crowd Of People, Beat Mom Dead In PA: Reports A 24-year-old man who killed one person and hurt 17 when he plowed his car into a crowd at a fire benefit and then beat a woman dead with a hammer moments later has been identified by Pennsylvania State Police, they said. Adrian Oswaldo Sura Reyes, of Nescopeck, Luzerne County, was arraigned by Magisterial District Judge on Sunday, Aug. 14, on two courts of criminal homicide. He was denied bail and remanded to the Columbia County Correctional Facility. Reyes was behind the wheel of a car that plowed into a crowd of people on West 2nd Street at the Intoxicology Department in B…

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by Cecilia Levine
News
Undercover PA Man Helps Catch 9 Alleged Predators Attempting To Lure Children Using Dating Apps Undercover PA Man Helps Catch 9 Alleged Predators Attempting To Lure Children Using Dating Apps
Undercover PA Man Helps Catch 9 Alleged Predators Attempting To Lure Children Using Dating Apps A group of alleged child predators were apprehended by police in connection with a scheme to meet up with minors they meet via dating apps on Tuesday, according to police. The accused, allegedly thought they were talking to children on dating apps and were trying to meet up for sex, according to police. Musa Harris, 41, who calls himself the "Luzerne County Predator Catcher,” is not a police officer, but he messages people on dating apps claiming to be underage, police say. This is something Harris, a father with a young child, has been doing full-time since March 2020, according to an …

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by Jillian Pikora
Schools
PA School Teacher Made 1st Grader Give, Receive Oral Sex As 'Discipline': DA PA School Teacher Made 1st Grader Give, Receive Oral Sex As 'Discipline': DA
PA School Teacher Made 1st Grader Give, Receive Oral Sex As 'Discipline': DA ** WARNING: This story contains graphic and disturbing details about sexual abuse. ** A pastor and former West Chester Christian School teacher has been charged with sexually abusing a first grade student during the 2007-08 school year, the Chester County DA's Office said Friday. Last month, a 20-year-old man apparently told his mom he was sexually assaulted at the West Chester Christian School on Paoli Pike by Randy Boston, according to an affidavit. Boston, 63, currently works as a pastor at the Bible Baptist Church in Shickshinny,  A Childline Report of Suspected Child Ab…

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by Cecilia Levine