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A teacher at Mount Carmel Guild Academy in West Orange, a private school for special needs students, has been charged with assaulting an 11-year-old student in April, Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens announced Friday. The teacher, Jaron Spicer, 32, of Bayonne was charged with second-degree endangering the welfare of a child and simple assault, which is a disorderly persons offense. The incident allegedly occurred around April 18, but wasn’t reported until April 22, when the boy’s mother went to the West Orange Police Department and reported that her son was assaulted by a teacher a…

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