Jenna Sciabica, 38, taught special education language arts at the Marlboro Memorial Middle School in Marlboro Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. She is a dyslexia therapist.
Marlboro Memorial Middle School fires Jenna Sciabica
On March 13, 2024, Sciabica allegedly inappropriately touched a female Marlboro Memorial Middle School student, 13, in the school hallway. It was caught on surveillance video and witnessed by another teacher, according to the girl’s mother.
On April 16, 2024, the mother and her husband attended a school board meeting. In her statement, she accused the school officials of failing to protect her daughter from Sciabica and mishandling the incident.
At the meeting, the mother read a letter from the school board’s attorney Marc Zitomer to the attorney of the alleged victim’s family. In the letter, Zitomer pointed out that Sciabica had been a tutor in the family’s home.
In the letter, Zitomer wrote that if anybody should have been aware of Sciabica’s proclivities, it was the alleged victim’s parents “who saw fit to have her tutor their child in their home for a year or more”. At the meeting, the attorney apologized for the letter claiming that it was not his intention to blame the alleged victim’s parents.
On April 17, 2024, the school sent a letter to the families of its students, informing them that Sciabica has been fired. On April 18, 2024, a bomb threat was sent by email to the school.
On April 19, 2024, Sciabica was charged with harassment. She plans to plead not guilty to the charge, according to his attorney Mitchell Ansell.
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