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.