Police Probing Sexual Abuse Allegations At Monsignor Slade Catholic School

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UPDATE 5:32pm May 8, 2013: According to online court records, Ritz has been charged with various drug offenses and was released on his own recognizance. Ritz is listed as being 60 years old and a resident of Brooklyn, MD.

Our media partner WBAL-TV is reporting that police are investigating an incident of inappropriate contact by several staff members with a former student at Monsignor Slade Catholic School in Glen Burnie.

Police are not releasing much information other than to say that several unidentified staff members were removed from the school and it is a criminal investigation.

According to neighbors, Slade’s Assistant Principal, Robert Ritz, was led from his home yesterday in handcuffs and police had confiscated what appeared to be a computer.

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