Prospect Park police have charged a 63-year-old Norwood woman with making false claims of abuse to Interboro school officials using the Safe2SaySomething reporting app that allows students to report threats and issues to authorities anonymously.
Police have charged Theresa M. Long with making unsworn falsification to authorities and making false reports. Both are misdemeanors.
According to the affidavit of probable cause, Interboro Resource Officer Nicholas Denton was investigating a report made through the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Safe2SaySomething anonymous platform that was sent on Dec. 13 to officials at Interboro School District.
The submitter stated they had witnessed an interaction between a male staff member and a ninth-grade female student in which sexual comments were made, causing the student to run away crying.
The reporting party claimed to be a senior female athlete at the high school, and as a result an investigation was launched into the staffer.
Police interviewed multiple students but none admitted to being the anonymous reporter, nor the student mentioned.
At that point, police suspected a fraudulent complaint, and applied for a search warrant for the attorney general to supply the IP address for the computer that the reporting person used.
The resulting information showed the computer was a public computer at the Norwood Public Library, but a camera showing the computer was not operating at the time of the report to show the...
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