Wednesday, November 28, 2012
John Martin, 41, of Wenonah, allegedly captured students undressing with eight hidden cameras set up around the Catholic school.
Gloucester Catholic Junior-Senior High School’s head custodian allegedly installed hidden video cameras throughout the school, capturing images of students and staff undressing as well as everyday school activities. John Martin, 41, of the first block of S. Jefferson Avenue in Wenonah, turned himself in Wednesday to Gloucester City police on a third-degree invasion of privacy charge. Martin allegedly set up eight hidden cameras around the Gloucester City Catholic school, placing them in classrooms, the school’s choir room, weight room, backstage area, maintenance facilities and football area. The cameras, hidden in smoke detectors and ventilation ducts, were pinhole-sized, measuring a quarter-inch in diameter, officials said. “Students …
It's unclear if the incident, in which a custodian reportedly circulated pictures of students, broke any laws.
UPDATE 5:40 p.m., Nov. 28: The school employee is now charged with filming students and staff through a web of secret pinhole cameras. Read more at Gloucester Catholic Custodian Charged with Secretly Filming Students. --------- A custodian at Gloucester Catholic Junior/Senior High School resigned last week after he was confronted with possessing and circulating cell phone pictures of students, the school principal announced. The Camden County Prosecutor’s Office is investigating whether the unnamed custodian broke any laws for having the pictures on his school-issued cell phone, principal John Colman wrote in a Nov. 27 letter to parents. Colman, who heads the Gloucester City Catholic school, wrote that he learned of the accusation on Nov. …
Friday, June 8, 2012
Rev. Brennan retires this month from Christ the King Church in Haddonfield.
The Rev. Monsignor William Patrick Brennan, the pastor of Christ the King Parish in Haddonfield for three years and a priest in the Catholic Diocese of Camden for 49 years, will retire on June 30. Brennan, 75, will celebrate his retirement Mass at 2:30 p.m. June 24 at Christ the King Church. Hundreds of relatives, friends, priests, nuns, deacons, former students and parishioners are expected to attend. A retirement dinner for him will follow at Holy Eucharist Parish Hall in Cherry Hill, where he was pastor before going to Christ the King. Reservations have closed for the dinner. Brennan was born in 1936 in Staten Island, NY. He studied at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Darlington, NJ. He was ordained a priest in Camden on May 25, 1963…
theresa barnett
3:00 pm on Friday, November 30, 2012
O.K. What's Next? are you saying if this man stuck to his job discription he wouldn't have been found out? People are getting to comfortable aren't they? more ›