Court denies former teacher's molestation appeal
| 29 Sep 2011 | 12:57
HARRISBURG On Jan. 4, the Pennsylvania Superior Court denied the appeal of Thomas Harvey Matthews, former teacher in the Delaware Valley School District who was convicted on twenty-three separate charges in July of 2006. He was sentenced to eleven and one-half years to twenty-four years for crimes committed against former students. Matthews’ conviction came after three different students testified how he touched them underneath their clothes while they were in his third-grade class. First Assistant Pike County District Attorney Bruce DeSarro, who prosecuted the case at trial, stated that “our community owes a great debt of gratitude for the bravery these young people showed in coming forward and bringing this predator to justice.”