Daily News | Delco fire chief charged with obstructing a child abuse investigation
Another Folcroft fire official has been charged in relation to a child endangerment investigation.A Delaware County fire chief was charged with obstructing an investigation into child abuse Tuesday, according to court documents.
The charges come after another department official, Folcroft Deputy Fire Chief Matthew Thomas Bateman, was charged late last year with a handful of sex crimes. Investigators alleged that the 28-year-old Bateman sexually assaulted a 15-year-old member of the department’s junior firefighter division multiple times inside the firehouse last summer.
they were actively investigating other leaders within the Folcroft Fire Department who may have known about the alleged abuse and failed to report it.Folcroft Borough officials released a statement Wednesday saying that the mayor and council members would refrain from commenting on Weber’s charges.
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