{"id":19502,"date":"2025-10-30T07:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T07:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/19502\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T07:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T07:18:09","slug":"allentown-middle-school-custodian-suspended-after-allegations-of-inappropriate-conduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/19502\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown middle school custodian suspended after allegations of inappropriate conduct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Harrison-Morton Middle School custodian has been suspended without pay pending an investigation into alleged inappropriate conduct.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged incident happened after school Oct. 17. The employee had no direct contact with students or staff, according to a statement acting Principal Arcelius Brickhouse shared with staff and families.<\/p>\n<p>The district notified Allentown police and placed the custodian on administrative leave. District officials said they could not provide any further information as the issue is a personnel matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe safety and well-being of our students and staff remain our highest priorities,\u201d Brickhouse said in his statement. \u201cWe appreciate your partnership and trust as we work to support our students, staff, and families.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Harrison-Morton Middle School custodian has been suspended without pay pending an investigation into alleged inappropriate conduct. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,227,182,139,432],"class_list":{"0":"post-19502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news","11":"tag-education","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-top-stories-tmc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}