{"id":289133,"date":"2026-09-18T19:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T19:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/289133\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T19:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T19:20:10","slug":"marvine-elementary-school-incident-report-unfounded-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/289133\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvine Elementary School incident report &#8216;unfounded,&#8217; police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An allegation involving a student and staff member at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/09\/04\/incident-involving-student-and-staff-member-at-bethlehem-school-under-investigation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marvine Elementary that prompted an investigation was deemed unfounded by authorities.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The incident, reported to parents by the district earlier this month, involved a staff member placing a student onto a beanbag chair, according to a city police news release.<\/p>\n<p>The staff member placed the student in the chair in an attempt to manage the student\u2019s behavior, police said. The student was not injured and did not experience pain or distress, the release states.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the staff member did not act with intent to injure the student, nor did they act in a manner that would support criminal charges, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased upon the information developed during the investigation, the circumstances were more consistent with an attempt to manage the student\u2019s behavior than with an intentional or criminal act,\u201d the news release states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An allegation involving a student and staff member at Marvine Elementary that prompted an investigation was deemed unfounded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,153,1994,202,227,7585,11998,433,182,139,434,28,432],"class_list":["post-289133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-township","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-education","tag-fountain-hill","tag-freemansburg","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289133","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=289133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}