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   LODI — The Board of Education on Tuesday night placed two   
   teachers on administrative leave, one widely believed to be   
   Stephanie Carafa, who has been accused of inappropriately   
   touching a 13-year-old boy.   
      
   The other teacher is believed to be Jason Nardachone, who was   
   indicted by a federal court Oct. 11 on charges of conspiracy to   
   commit health care fraud. One is an unpaid leave dating back to   
   Oct. 15, likely Nardachone.   
      
   The second suspension, which was a late added resolution   
   Tuesday, is with pay and dated Monday, the day charges were   
   announced against Carafa, who is the daughter of longtime   
   borough Mayor Emil Carafa.   
      
   According to the arrest warrant, Stephanie Carafa was working as   
   a teacher in the district when she “touched the victim’s … penis   
   over his clothing (pants), allowing the victim … to touch her   
   breast and buttocks over her clothing along with sharing illicit   
   photographs and videos of sexual nature.”   
      
   Carafa, 32, was arrested Saturday and charged with aggravated   
   criminal sexual contact and endangering the welfare of a child,   
   the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office said.   
      
   Before the public comment portion of Tuesday's meeting, board   
   attorney Douglas Silvestro told those in attendance that   
   although they were entitled to comment, the board couldn't   
   answer because it is a personnel issue.   
      
   A few parents took the opportunity to do just that, including   
   Cynthia Klawans. She said there have been "serious accusations"   
   made recently and that she had a "terrible night" trying to   
   explain to her 12-year-old why his teacher was arrested.   
      
   Yesenia Flores echoed those sentiments. She said her 11-year-old   
   asked the most "heart-wrenching question" last night. He asked   
   her "what is sexual molestation," she said.   
      
   Both women wanted to know why the school district doesn't have   
   better plans to inform parents.   
      
   "Why is it that I, as a parent, have to find out through the   
   news and through social media that my son's teacher was   
   arrested? Why isn't there simple communication from the school   
   system saying there was a situation and it's being handled?"   
   Klawans asked.   
      
   Carafa was arrested after an investigation by the Prosecutor’s   
   Office and borough police. Officers received information that   
   Carafa, a teacher at Thomas Jefferson Middle School, had   
   exchanged the photos and videos with a juvenile under age 16.   
      
   She is scheduled for a detention hearing in Hackensack on Friday   
   at 9 a.m. .   
      
   Meanwhile, Nardachone, 45, of Nutley, faces charges of   
   conspiracy to commit health care fraud.   
      
   Nardachone is a social studies teacher who, according to public   
   records, was paid $93,841 last year. His initial court   
   appearance was Oct. 11 in federal court in Newark. Nardachone is   
   accused of knowingly causing the billing of medically   
   unnecessary compounded medications, such as metabolic vitamins,   
   pain creams and scar creams, for himself and three other   
   teachers.   
      
   In all, the indictment alleges that Nardachone defrauded the   
   benefit program of $564,754.   
      
   Past district issues   
   Lodi teachers have found themselves in legal trouble before.   
   Earlier this year a math teacher at the high school was fired   
   after being sentenced to four years in prison for hitting a   
   Bergen County police officer with his car, leaving the officer   
   with career-ending injuries, in 2014.   
      
   The teacher, Michael Ettz, had been suspended from his job   
   without pay since June 2014. His salary at the time was $101,169.   
      
   Melissa Grant-Terhune, a special education teacher at Lodi High   
   School, was charged with driving while intoxicated in January   
   2016. Grant-Terhune was involved in an argument with a resident   
   who was outside of the vehicle. Officers gave her field sobriety   
   tests and arrested her. She was later released with a summons.   
      
   https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/bergen/lodi/2018/10/30/lo   
   di-nj-school-board-meeting-wake-teacher-arrests/1823931002/   
       
      
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