Former school liaison begins anger management treatment

Staff report

WARREN

Marcus D. Crum, who was working as a parent liaison Oct. 22 at the STEAM Academy when he purportedly slammed a female student, 11, into a door has started anger-management treatment at Valley Counseling Services.

Crum, 39, of Drexel Avenue Northwest, appeared Wednesday in Warren Municipal Court for a hearing in his misdemeanor assault case that arose from the incident.

The school is at 261 Elm Road NE, the former St. Mary’s High School and St. Mary’s Middle School, now owned by Pansophic Learning of McLean, Va.

Crum’s attorney, Rhys Cartwright-Jones, on Wednesday requested and received a continuance of 60 days in the case.

Judge Thomas Gysegem set another hearing for 10:15 a.m. Feb. 16 while Crum “continues the treatment he is already getting,” the judge said.

Judge Gysegem earlier ordered Crum to have no contact with the school. He continued that order Wednesday and extended it, saying Crum is to have no contact with the girl or her family.

The girl and her mother remained outside the courtroom during the hearing. Afterward, the girl’s mother said her daughter no longer attends STEAM Academy.

A Warren police detective called the surveillance video from the hallway of the school showing the incident “disturbing.”

The girl’s mother took her to ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital the day it happened, Oct. 22, and then Akron Children’s Hospital in Boardman. The girl reportedly had injuries to her head and neck. The family reported the incident to police the next day.

The girl was in fifth grade at the public charter school for students in kindergarten to eighth grade.