by Jason Morris

EDITORIAL: Poor judgment on janitor

Monday, March 24, 2008

St. Tammany Parish school officials say that a state-mandated criminal background check did not exclude the hiring of Dino Jay Schwertz, a 41-year-old school custodian who is accused of raping children in an elementary school restroom.

But there were red flags in Mr. Schwertz’s record that were revealed by the background check, and they should have prompted school officials to reject this job applicant. Instead, he was hired for a temporary job at Abney Elementary School in Slidell, where police say that he raped two 10-year-old boys and molested an 8-year-old and 11-year-old.

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