{"id":152909,"date":"2022-04-06T03:41:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T08:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=152909"},"modified":"2022-04-06T03:41:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T08:41:13","slug":"charges-against-educators-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/04\/06\/charges-against-educators-dismissed\/","title":{"rendered":"Charges against educators dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent news<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three Delphos City Schools employees facing misdemeanor child endangerment charges had their case dismissed without prejudice in Van Wert Municipal Court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Judge Jill Worthington acted on a defense motion to dismiss the charges against the trio and ruled the prosecution failed to establish probable cause. Her decision came before testimony began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The three employees \u2013 Delphos Jefferson High School Principal Chad Brinkman, Intervention Specialist Karissa Hoersten and Education Administrative Specialist Maureen Rentz \u2013 were accused of neglect involving a developmentally disabled student.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All three were placed on leave when the charges were filed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent news Three Delphos City Schools employees facing misdemeanor child endangerment charges had their case dismissed without prejudice in Van Wert Municipal Court on Tuesday. Judge Jill Worthington acted on a defense motion to dismiss the charges against the trio and ruled the prosecution failed to establish probable cause. Her decision came before testimony [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 17:30:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}