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SOUTH BEND A special education tutor at Riley High School is charged with two felonies after allegedly having sex with a student who had run away from home.
Prosecutors charged Denise Freitag, 55, with two counts of child seduction Wednesday, alleging she took the 16-year-old into her house earlier this month.
According to court documents, the student s father reported him as a runaway on June 11, but noticed his cell phone appeared in an unfamiliar location and saw posts about a possible sexual encounter with Freitag.
The boy was arrested as a runaway on June 18 and told police he had stayed at an abandoned property before Freitag picked him up and took him to her house. The student said he knew Freitag because she had worked with him at Riley over the past three months completing school assignments, court documents say.
Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania announced that six girls from Berks County were among the 80 from across its council territory who earned the Girl Scout Gold Award â the highest honor and award a Girl Scout can achieve â during the 2019â2020-member year.
The hybrid in-person and virtual ceremony was held on Sunday at Camp Laughing Waters in New Hanover Township, Montgomery County.
The Girl Scout Gold Award recognizes Girl Scout Seniors and Ambassadors (grades 9-12) who demonstrate extraordinary leadership through sustainable and measurable Take Action projects. The Gold Award is the culmination of a girlâs demonstration of leadership ability, time management, creativity, initiative and a significant mastery of skills. Gold Award Girl Scouts individually identify a community problem, develop a plan to solve it, recruit a team to assist them and create sustainable solutions that last for years beyond their project.
A proposed tax exemption for La Salle Academy in Providence was scaled back Tuesday before passing the Rhode Island Senate over the objections of some Democratic lawmakers.
La Salle sought the exemption after receiving a property-tax bill, the first in its 150-year history, for part of its 26-acre Mount Pleasant campus last year.
It was one of two private schools identified by Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza s administration last year as falling outside blanket exemptions in state law and without its own special exemption.
If the La Salle bill is signed into law, the only other private school known to be facing a tax bill would be Community Preparatory School in South Providence.
The first Providence property tax bill in La Salle Academy s history has re-energized debate about whether Rhode Island nonprofits are paying their fair share to their host communities.
Searching for revenue to balance the customarily stressed city budget, Mayor Jorge Elorza last year turned his gaze to previously un-taxed land owned by schools that isn t covered by state exemptions for nonprofits.
La Salle s 26-acre Mount Pleasant campus on Academy Avenue at Smith Street was at the top of the list.
But the Catholic high school, whose alumni are a who s who of top Rhode Island politicians, feels it is being singled out in a state filled with other private schools that don t pay taxes.