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NJ SCHOOL OFFICIALS TURN BLIND EYE TO TEACHER'S "CLASSROOM OF HORRORS", SIGN "PRIVACY AGREEMENT" ALLOWING KNOWN PEDOPHILE TO OBTAIN NEXT TEACHING JOB, WHERE HE RAPED A FIRST GRADE GIRL http://www.nj.com/somerset/index.ssf/2017/01/judge_blast_school_officials_for_allowing_pedophil.html
SOMERVILLE, NJ: Somerset County Superior Court Judge Robert B. Reed admonished school officials from the Butler and Montville school districts for their handling of a former first-grade teacher with a history of molesting female students during the teacher's sentencing Friday.
JASON FENNES, 44, of Bloomfield, New Jersey, was relieved of his duties from both school districts after molesting students and signing a privacy agreement. That agreement, said Reed, allowed Fennes to later secure a job at the Cedar Hill Prep School in Franklin Township, where he was indicted for molesting a first-grader there.
"Their conduct is only slightly less despicable than yours," Reed said to Fennes before sentencing him. "These school officials committed the egregious act of turning a blind eye to the situation and by their silence became complicit and an accomplice to this crime... They hid your crime from public view, from the very people who they are paid to protect," the judge said. "How could they fail to report this conduct and simply pass this pedophile along. This is known as 'passing the trash.' These school administrators are rarely penalized for failing to report these pedophiles. But that I could only have those people before me... There are no consequences for these administrators," said Reed, pounding his fist.
"I wish those officials from Butler and Montville were sitting behind the defense table with Mr. Fennes." Reed said he regretted he couldn't sentence Fennes to a longer term and that he couldn't sentence school officials from the Butler and Montville school districts to jail time.
During their victim's impact statements, the parents of the first-grader gave a tearful account of what their daughter endured and continues to endure. They gave a graphic description of the abuse heaped upon their daughter by Fennes. They talked about how she had to be examined for a sexually transmitted disease. "Words can't express the devastation you have visited upon my family," said the victim's father. "It was a classroom of horrors. How do I process this, not being able to protect my child? I'm worried that my daughter will be OK when she gets older."
NJ SCHOOL OFFICIALS TURN BLIND EYE TO TEACHER'S "CLASSROOM OF HORRORS", SIGN "PRIVACY AGREEMENT" ALLOWING KNOWN PEDOPHILE TO OBTAIN NEXT TEACHING JOB, WHERE HE RAPED A FIRST GRADE GIRL http://www.nj.com/somerset/index.ssf/2017/01/judge_blast_school_officials_for_allowing_pedophil.html
SOMERVILLE, NJ: Somerset County Superior Court Judge Robert B. Reed admonished school officials from the Butler and Montville school districts for their handling of a former first-grade teacher with a history of molesting female students during the teacher's sentencing Friday.
JASON FENNES, 44, of Bloomfield, New Jersey, was relieved of his duties from both school districts after molesting students and signing a privacy agreement. That agreement, said Reed, allowed Fennes to later secure a job at the Cedar Hill Prep School in Franklin Township, where he was indicted for molesting a first-grader there.
"Their conduct is only slightly less despicable than yours," Reed said to Fennes before sentencing him. "These school officials committed the egregious act of turning a blind eye to the situation and by their silence became complicit and an accomplice to this crime... They hid your crime from public view, from the very people who they are paid to protect," the judge said. "How could they fail to report this conduct and simply pass this pedophile along. This is known as 'passing the trash.' These school administrators are rarely penalized for failing to report these pedophiles. But that I could only have those people before me... There are no consequences for these administrators," said Reed, pounding his fist.
"I wish those officials from Butler and Montville were sitting behind the defense table with Mr. Fennes." Reed said he regretted he couldn't sentence Fennes to a longer term and that he couldn't sentence school officials from the Butler and Montville school districts to jail time.
During their victim's impact statements, the parents of the first-grader gave a tearful account of what their daughter endured and continues to endure. They gave a graphic description of the abuse heaped upon their daughter by Fennes. They talked about how she had to be examined for a sexually transmitted disease. "Words can't express the devastation you have visited upon my family," said the victim's father. "It was a classroom of horrors. How do I process this, not being able to protect my child? I'm worried that my daughter will be OK when she gets older."