Well, I got it wrong!

When I first heard about this story, via a tweet from Steve Keeley of Fox 29 News, I guessed that, when and if The Philadelphia Inquirer covered this story, a crucial piece of information would be omitted. After all, when the newspaper covers crime, it routinely censors all references to race in its crime stories, so, even though race is not involved in this story, I guessed that censorship would be used.

Special education teacher charged with sex assault of students at Burlington County elementary school

Vincent Root, 58, of Philadelphia, worked at Chatsworth Elementary School. He was taken into custody Thursday morning, prosecutors said.

by Robert Moran | Friday the Thirteenth, October 2023 | 9:08 PM EDT | Updated: 9:30 PM EDT

A 58-year-old Philadelphia man has been charged with sexually assaulting students while working as a special education teacher in Burlington County.

Vincent Root, who taught at Chatsworth Elementary School, was taken into custody Thursday morning at the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office in Mount Holly and was being held pending a detention hearing.

School district officials said Root has been placed on administrative leave and has been banned from school property, Burlington County Prosecutor LaChia L. Bradshaw said in a news release.

Here’s where we get to the part I already knew, due to Mr Keeley’s part two of his original, in which he included the press release from the Burlington County, New Jersey’s Prosecutor’s Office, but didn’t expect the newspaper to publish:

“The investigation began last month after a student came forward and accused Root of touching him inappropriately during previous school years,” Bradshaw said.

“The investigation revealed that the victims, all of whom are male, were touched in classrooms inside the school building,” Bradshaw said. “The investigation further revealed that the abuse occurred over a multi-year period.”

Those last two paragraphs were verbatim quotes, so the Inquirer reporter wasn’t doing much new work here, nor censoring what was said. But, after the story about Philly’s local celebrity freelance journalist, Josh Kruger, now being accused of having had sex with a minor, and the city’s homosexual community running away from the story, the last thing I would have expected is the newspaper running a story about another homosexual pedophile.

And if the late Mr Kruger’s (alleged) victim was 15 years old, more of the age to be pursued by a chickenhawk, an ephebophile, Mr Root is accused of sexually touching male students in an elementary school, which normally has grades K-5, meaning students aged 5 to 11 years of age. The report deliberately conceals the ages of the students assaulted, but most of the students there are in the age range which would be the victims of a true pedophile.

More, Mr Root was a special education teacher, meaning that his classroom interactions were most heavily among students with lesser mental capacity, though the story does not specify that any of the students he touched were in his classes.

Dare I use the word “groomer” here? Yeah, I think I do.

The Inquirer’s Editorial Board are very, very concerned that normal parents want to keep homosexually-oriented materials out of the public schools, so reporter Robert Moran may be in for a wrist slapping from his editors for giving more ammunition to normal parents. Three stories about adult male homosexuals going after minors sexually, in three days? This can’t be a good look!

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