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20 Elementary School Staffers Charged with Abuse | Crime Alert 04.22.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'mnancy Grace, breaking crime needs Now. At Surveillance
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  Speaker 1: cameras inside Chester Community Charter School, Delaware County, PA catch
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  Speaker 1: around one hundred incidents of child abuse involving twenty six children,
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  Speaker 1: some as young as five. The footage mostly from the
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  Speaker 1: school's special needs quote Positive Support Room, prompting investigation that
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  Speaker 1: leads to charges against twenty school employees. The investigation begins
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  Speaker 1: when a parent contacts Dennis Monzioni, the school's director of
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  Speaker 1: special Programs, reporting their seven year old childs afraid to
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  Speaker 1: go to school. Monzioni relays this to Principal Philip Meitner.
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  Speaker 1: Then another seven year old students' parents come forward.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy, the second child, revealed he was afraid of being
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  Speaker 2: put in a hold at school. Surveillance camera show nine
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  Speaker 2: school staffers physically restraining students in kindergarten through fifth grade,
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  Speaker 2: pinging them, holding painful pressure points near their necks, and
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  Speaker 2: even pushing children to the ground by holding them by
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  Speaker 2: their wrists and putting a kneel on their Eleven more
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  Speaker 2: employees are facing charges for failing to inform any one
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  Speaker 2: of the abuse. District attorney Jack Stolsteimer called the situation
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  Speaker 2: a nightmare, saying adults should be expected to keep school
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  Speaker 2: children safe, not abuse them physically and emotionally. Under state guidelines,
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  Speaker 2: what peak performers staffing solutions are calling safety holds must
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  Speaker 2: be reported each time they are employed. The school reported
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  Speaker 2: no such holds in twenty twenty four, when much of
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  Speaker 2: the abuse is alleged to have occurred.
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  Speaker 1: Nine of twenty staffers face assault, false imprisonment, and endangering
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  Speaker 1: children charges. The other eleven charges with failing to report abuse.
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  Speaker 1: Austin Evanson stops at a Prescott Valley, Arizona's store to
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  Speaker 1: get a drink inside her French bulldog, Kimber, accidentally rolls
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  Speaker 1: down a window and jumps out. SAME's Evanson left or
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  Speaker 1: truck running. Surveillance video shows dog Kimber wandering near the store.
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  Speaker 1: A white Lexus SUV pulls up, parks beside the truck,
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  Speaker 1: picks up Kimber without trying to find the owner, and
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  Speaker 1: drives away. Police id the suv license plate through a
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  Speaker 1: licensed reader system. Within hours of suspect and bulldog found.
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  Speaker 1: One arrested, the other now writing shotgun with mom more
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  Speaker 1: Prime and Justice News After this, How could a beautiful
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  Speaker 1: young first grade teacher be stabbed twenty times, including in
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  Speaker 1: the back, allegedly die of suicide. Yes, that was the
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  Speaker 1: medical examiner's official ruling after a closed door meeting, he
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  Speaker 1: first named it a homicide. Why what Happened to Ellen Greenberg?
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  Speaker 1: A huge American miscarriage of justice. For an in depth
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  Speaker 1: All proceeds to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
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  Speaker 1: Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news Crime
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  Speaker 1: Onlines John Lemley.
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  Speaker 3: A federal grand jury in Manhattan has indicted Luigi Mangioni
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  Speaker 3: for the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a
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  Speaker 3: charge that could carry the death penalty. Prosecutor say twenty
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  Speaker 3: six year old mangione shot Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel
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  Speaker 3: in December, just before an investor meeting. Surveillance video captured
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  Speaker 3: a mass gunman firing from behind. Police say the ammunition
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  Speaker 3: was etched with the words delay, deny, and depose, a
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  Speaker 3: phrase link to insurance claim denials. The indictment follows US
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  Speaker 3: Attorney General Pam Bondi's directive to seek capital punishment, the
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  Speaker 3: first under President Trump's renewed federal execution policy. Bondi called
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  Speaker 3: the killing quote an act of political violence. Mangioni's lawyers
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  Speaker 3: argue the move was a political stunt that tainted the
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  Speaker 3: grand jury process. They're asking the court to suppress evidence,
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  Speaker 3: including a notebook allegedly outlying plans target a health insurance executive. Mangioni,
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  Speaker 3: who comes from a prominent Maryland family, is being held
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  Speaker 3: in federal custody. He also faces state murder charges. Prosecutors
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  Speaker 3: say both cases will proceed in parallel. A rare legal
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  Speaker 3: case is unfolding in Georgia, where the father of an
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  Speaker 3: alleged school shooter is facing serious charges himself. As Crime
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  Speaker 3: Online Sidney Sumner explains, a judge has now ruled the
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  Speaker 3: trial will be moved from the county where the attack occurred.
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  Speaker 2: Colin Gray, the father of fourteen year old Colt Gray,
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  Speaker 2: the accused gunman in the Appalachi High School shooting, will
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  Speaker 2: not face trial in Barrow County. Both prosecutors and Gray's
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  Speaker 2: defense agreed the local jury pool has been too affected
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  Speaker 2: by the September fourth attack, which left four people dead
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  Speaker 2: and nine others injured. Colin Gray has pleaded not guilty
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  Speaker 2: to twenty nine counts, including second degree murder and involuntary manslaughter.
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  Speaker 2: Prosecutors say he gifted his son in an assault style
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  Speaker 2: rifle for Christmas, despite knowing the teen was in crisis.
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  Speaker 2: In an fascinated with past school shootings, Investigators say Colt
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  Speaker 2: kept a shrine to the Parkland gunman above his home computer.
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  Speaker 2: The shooting claimed the lives of two students, Mason shermerhorn
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  Speaker 2: in Christian Anglo, both fourteen, and teachers Richard Aspinwall and
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  Speaker 2: Christina Eremi. Gray's defense attorney, Jimmy Barry, has suggested moving
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  Speaker 2: the trial to Thomas County in South Georgia, where media
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  Speaker 2: coverage may have been less intense. Prosecutors floated Walton County,
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  Speaker 2: closer to the scene, but Judge Nick Prim hasn't ruled,
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  Speaker 2: raising the possibility that either jurors will be brought in
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  Speaker 2: from elsewhere or the entire trial relocated.
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  Speaker 3: Still ahead. A decision on where Colin Gray's trial will
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  Speaker 3: take place and how far it may go to insure
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  Speaker 3: a fair jury.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John David Crabtree, just thirteen, is his older brother's shadow.
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  Speaker 1: When James goes out for football, so does David when
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  Speaker 1: James starts pitching for baseball. David follows in his footsteps.
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  Speaker 1: As James gets older and earns more independence, David doesn't
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  Speaker 1: understand why he can't have the same curfee. He's caught
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  Speaker 1: sneaking out of his Locus Grove, Oklahoma home several times.
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  Speaker 1: April eight, David tells his family he loves them and
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  Speaker 1: goes to bed. Three boys wait outside the window. David
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  Speaker 1: climbs out and vanishes. His parents immediately reported missing, but
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  Speaker 1: police label him a runaway and the Crabtree family feels
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  Speaker 1: his case was not given the right amount of attention.
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  Speaker 1: David Cherokee five five, one hundred and twenty five pounds,
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  Speaker 1: black hair, brown eyes, wearing a gray shirt, black pants.
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  Speaker 1: If you have info on David Crabtree, who would be
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  Speaker 1: thirty eight today, please call Locus Grove, Oklahoma PD nine
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  Speaker 1: one eight four seven nine twenty one twenty one.
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