IN RE ALLEGATION OF PHYSICAL ABUSE CONCERING L.R.


729 A.2d 463 (1999)

321 N.J. Super. 444

In the Matter of an ALLEGATION OF PHYSICAL ABUSE CONCERING L.R. at First Middle School on 3/26/96 (A.V.). In the Matter of an Allegation of Physical Abuse Concerning K.G. at Second School on 4/12/95 (Z.M.). In the Matter of an Allegation of Physical Abuse Concerning L.J. at Third School on 3/5/96 (V.P.). In the Matter of an Allegation of Physical Abuse Concerning D.S. and S.W. at Fourth School on 5/17/96 (C.M.). In the Matter of an Allegation of Physical Abuse Concerning B.P. at the Second School on 3/1/95 (E.D.). In the Matter of Allegation of Abuse Concerning P.C. at the Fifth School on 6/16/96 (J.C.). In the Matter of an Allegation of Physical Abuse Concerning M.J. at First School on 12/18/96 (T.L.). In the Matter of an Allegation of Physical Abuse Concerning N.R. at the Sixth Elementary School on 2/3/97 (B.B.). In the Matter of an Allegation of Physical Abuse Concerning A.F. at the Sixth Elementary School on 10/31/96 (R.H.). In the Matter of an Allegation of Physical Abuse Concerning D.C. at Seventh School on 2/3/97 (A.N.). In the Matter of an Allegation of Physical Abuse Concerning M.S. at the Eighth School on 5/30/97 (R.B.). In the Matter of an Allegation of Physical Abuse Concerning L.J. at Second School on 4/23/97 (C.A.). In the Matter of an Allegation of Physical Abuse Concerning S.H. at Second School on 6/10/97 (Z.M.). In the Matter of an Allegation of on-going Sexual Abuse Concerning D.J., et al. at the Second School (M.L.).

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided May 26, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

V. Maria Cristiano, for appellants (Claudine M. Liss and Norton, Arpert, Sheehy & Higgins, attorneys; Ms. Cristiano of counsel and on the brief; Ms. Liss, on the brief).

Andrea M. Silkowitz, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent (Peter Verniero, Attorney General, attorney; Ms. Silkowitz, of counsel and on the brief).

Before Judges HAVEY, SKILLMAN and LESEMANN.


The opinion of the court was delivered by SKILLMAN, J.A.D.

Appellants in these fourteen consolidated appeals are teachers presently or formerly employed by the Newark school district who were charged with committing acts of child abuse upon their students. The school district referred those charges to the Division of Youth and Family Services (DYFS), which conducted investigations through its Institutional Abuse Investigation...

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