Posted on 04/18/2010 3:10:47 PM PDT by Coleus
A popular, longtime elementary school gym teacher in Rahway has been arrested and charged with repeatedly sexually assaulting two girls in Pennsylvania, authorities confirmed today.
Scott Karaman, 50, who taught gym for nearly two decades at Roosevelt Elementary School, was arrested during an afternoon class on Wednesday. He faces charges including rape of a child, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child under 13 years old, aggravated indecent assault, indecent exposure and corruption of minors, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
Pennsylvania police said the rapes took place between January 1997 and December of 2004, when one of the victims was between the ages of 4 and 7 and the other was between the ages of 7 and 12. Karaman’s current residence is listed in Polk Township, Pa., but he also has a previous address listed in Rahway, according to public records. He is being held at Union County jail and will be extradited to Pennsylvania.
The gym teacher has been suspended from his position pending the outcome of this investigation, said Frank Buglione, district superintendent. Buglione sent a letter out to parents Thursday stating that a staff member had been arrested at the school, but it did not identify Karaman. Buglione said the out-of-state charges were not related to Karaman’s job at the school, and the school board’s attorney had advised that any other information should be released by police. The superintendent said he was "very, very concerned" about the charges.
"We hope that it doesn’t prove to be true," Buglione said. "We don’t have any evidence of anything going on in the school at all, and if we hear anything, we’ll follow up immediately with the police department." He said Karaman, a former student of the Rahway school district, was hired as a gym teacher in 1992.
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anyone notice the influx of these crimes ? I think it has something to do with the leniency over the decades towards this behavior. Time to start snipping all who are convicted of these crimes. Disgusting, if not at least give the family, in the words of Pantera “5 minutes alone” !
Where is the NY Slimes on this and the other public school teachers molesting kids story?
He probably thought he was protected by Obama’s Anti-hate crime legislation. The Pervs are on the loose and they have a friend in the White House and Congress.
I'll wait until all facts are in and a jury hands down its verdict before I cast judgment on this guy..........
Yes, this could turn out either way.
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the naughty teacher list on FR is for female teachers, this guy is a male.
“Time to start snipping”
My thoughts exactly! It sems like there’s almost one/month on the news here in MI. Earlier this year there was a story about some little kid being expelled for bringing a TOY knife to school!
I wrote the station’s viewer comment page that it seemed to me that the kids would be a whole lot safer if school employees were “disarmed”.
It did happen back in the 50’s when I went to school. I remember us kids harassing a gay teacher off the premises (before unions) and he was busted at the next school he went to. And a coach who was dismissed for messing around w/some of the players.
I’m a little skeptical of these charges because of the long delay in bringing them. Is this another “recovered memory” case? Scott Karaman deserves a day in court to try to defend himself.
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