20 Elementary School Staffers Charged with Abuse | Crime Alert 04.22.25
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 22 April 2025
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20 elementary school staffers charged with abuse for "safety" holds targeting pressure points. Stolen pup tracked down and safely returned to her owner!
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking Crime News Now. Surveillance cameras inside Chester Community Charter School, Delaware County, PA, catch around 100 incidents of child abuse involving 26 children, some as young as five. The footage mostly from the school's special needs, quote, positive support room, prompting investigation that leads to |
| 0:22.2 | charges against 20 school employees. The investigation begins when a parent contacts Dennis Monsione, |
| 0:29.6 | the school's director of special programs, reporting their seven-year-old child's afraid to go to |
| 0:33.7 | school. Monzioni relays this to principal Philip Mitner, then another seven-year-old |
| 0:39.8 | students' parents come forward. Nancy, the second child, revealed he was afraid of being put in a |
| 0:45.2 | hold at school. Surveillance cameras show nine school staffers physically restraining students |
| 0:50.5 | in kindergarten through fifth grade, pinching them, holding painful pressure |
| 0:54.3 | points near their necks, and even pushing children to the ground by holding them by the wrists |
| 0:58.8 | and putting a knee on their back. |
| 1:01.0 | Eleven more employees are facing charges for failing to inform anyone of the abuse. |
| 1:06.0 | District Attorney Jack Stolstimer called the situation a nightmare, saying adults should |
| 1:09.9 | be expected to keep school |
| 1:11.1 | children safe, not abuse them physically and emotionally. Under state guidelines, what peak |
| 1:16.4 | performer's staffing solutions are calling safety holds must be reported each time they are employed. |
| 1:22.6 | The school reported no such holds in 2024 when much of the abuse is alleged to have occurred. |
| 1:27.9 | Nine of 20 staffers face assault, false imprisonment, and endangering children charges. |
| 1:33.8 | The other 11 charged with failing to report abuse. |
| 1:37.3 | Austin Evanson stops at a Prescott Valley, Arizona store, to get a drink. |
| 1:42.1 | Inside, her French bulldog, Kimber, accidentally rolls down a window |
| 1:46.5 | and jumps out. Seems Evanson left her truck running. Surveillance video shows dog Kimber |
| 1:52.6 | wandering near the store, a white Lexus SUV pulls up, parks beside the truck, picks |
| 1:58.8 | up Kimber without trying to find the owner and drives away. Police ID |
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