Substitute teacher charged with sexually assaulting a student in South Jersey
Updated Feb 06, 2021;
A 41-year-old South Jersey woman has been charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy when she was a substitute teacher last year at the Alternative School at Bookbinder in Willingboro, authorities said Friday.
Kameelah Kareem, of Willingoro, was taken into custody Wednesday and released Thursday after a hearing in Superior Court, the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office said. She is also charged with endangering the welfare of a child.
Reached by phone Friday, Kareem declined to comment.
The Prosecutor’s Office said its investigation began last month after authorities learned of the inappropriate relationship and discovered that Kareem had assaulted the student on multiple occasions outside of the school during the 2019-20 school year.
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The assault took place near Union Street on December 29, 2019, according to Burlington County Prosecutor s Office, when the victim was walking home from a friend’s house when a man approached her, beat her up, and sexually assaulted her. The man also reportedly threatened to kill her. She sustained severe injuries in the attack, including fractures to her face, lost teeth, and a brain aneurism. She was treated at Cooper University Hospital in Camden.
After police were informed of the assault, surveillance video of the area pointed them towards 29-year-old John Lewis, of Browns Mills.
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It looks like Gov. Murphy’s veto threat had an effect, at least in the Assembly, where yet another attempt at marijuana clean-up legislation is moving. And while it hasn’t advanced in the Senate, the path to such an attempt doesn’t look closed off.
Request for NJ farmland tax break leads to major marijuana bust
A landlord’s request for a tax break led to his tenant being busted on charges of running a large-scale pot growing enterprise.
According to the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office, the unnamed landlord wanted the property in question assessed under the New Jersey Farmland Assessment Act. A peripheral inspection of the property by the municipal tax assessor determined that the property was not being used for agricultural purposes, officials said.
The owner appealed and a more thorough inspection took place. This inspection did reveal that the property was being used to grow a crop: inspectors said they found marijuana plants in cultivation.
CHESTERFIELD A request for a tax break here led to drug charges against a New York City man.
Weiming Liu, 57, of Brooklyn is accused of operating a large-scale marijuana growing operation at a Chesterfield farm, according to the Burlington County Prosecutor s Office.
It alleged Liu s weed crop occupied greenhouses, pole barns and other buildings at a leased property on the 100 block of Chesterfield-Crosswicks Road.
An investigation began when Liu s landlord, whose name was not released, requested a property-tax reduction under the state s Farmland Assessment Act, the prosecutor s office said in a statement.
It said the application was rejected after Chesterfield s tax assessor conducted a peripheral inspection and concluded the site was not in agricultural use.