What a pervert !!!!

My daughter goes to that school and I wasn't notified of anything!
I'm reading this in a complete surprise and I'm so disgusted!

27 years old,What a Dope,Hope the Scum gets 73 years and then comes out to be Raped by a 27 year old Perv.Just like Him

My son goes to that school and this is how i find out im so pissed off about this...this is nothing to take lightly!!!! The school will be getting an ear full from me!!!

popjon what a sick puppy!!!

All of the parents of Walnut Street School should come out to the next school board meeting and blast Mr. Roselli for the way that this situation was handled. I hope with all of my soul that none of the children that attend this school have been exposed to any of this nonsense! Here we go again another black eye for the Toms River School District!!!

I just have a question to ask out here..don't we pay Tammi Millar over 90,000.00 a year to be the schools spokes person? Why isn't she personally making the calls informing the parents of this school about this problem? Don't they have a robo call program that Mr. Roselli could have pre-recorded a message about this incident to the parents so they didn't have to find out from either WOBM, NJ101.5, News 12 New Jersey, Asbury Park Press or the Patch?

He will get to enjoy being gang raped in prison...

Your sure to get plenty of robo calls from the Toms River Reginal School system on the last week of October into the first and second week of November leading up to November 6th, Election Day, inwhich a select few current BOE members want your vote to count since it's now no longer, stacked in there favor.

i just got a phone call about it...3 hours after this gets blasted on the internet,radio and news.Greg your right there needs to be a better way cause this is ridiculous! I will be heading down to the school first thing in the morning i promise that and i will make sure they get my point loud and clear!!

I think that psych evaluations should be done to all that work/apply for a school of any kind. A background check just isn't enough it only means they haven't gotten caught yet.

Please see the message at www.trschools.com and the notice to parents will also be sent by the automated call system.

Finally got robo call. Just now

First of all, Mr.Roselli is not the guilty party. Yes, there is a call method for an emergency. Did you want to come home to a message about this on your answering machine when you got home from work? Don't you think the prosecuters office told Mr.Roselli when and how to handle this? You think we live in a small country hick town, well no we don't and it does take time. You can't go saying things to parents until you get ALL the CORRECT INFORMATION. Yes, is this absolutely horrible, it is! Talk to you children and inform them that we live in a world were there are many terrible, discusting people and teach them how to help themselves and what to watch out for. So sorry Toms River schools is in the paper again. My heart goes out to the good people that work there and to the children this man allegedly hurt.

Parents relax! Did you want them to notify you of an arrest BEFORE the arrest? Marching into the school tomorrow is going to accomplish nothing besides disrupting the school day. Give the school some time before you jump all over them.

Of course. Are you?

As a parent I'm disappointed at least some notification wasn't sent home but with all the horrible press the TR school district has taken and their lack of responsiveness with those situations, I'm not surprised. I would think a meeting with parents and administrators should be immediate but I wouldn't blame people at the school. I'm sure they had no idea. Curious to know if he has a record.

No one with a record should be working with kids. In my opinion.

what school board member is he related to? more to come !

I posted an update to the article. Also, posted TRRS' statement here: http://tomsriver.patch.com/articles/toms-river-schools-staff-meets-with-faculty-contacts-parents-after-custodian-arrest

Spot on lulu

Stupid sick bastard.......I still can't understand what drives people to this with children.

Parents, you should have these tools at your disposal at all times. Do your homework because no one will do it for you.

http://www.familywatchdog.us/Search.asp

http://www.mapsexoffenders.com/

http://www.njsp.org/info/reg_sexoffend.html

You'd be very surprised how many perverts are in your neighborhoods.

Totally proves our education system is about everything but education. Wonder who he was friends with to get the job in the first place? Must have been some screening process in this interview... "Oh you like taking pictures, that will be great we can hang them on the walls in place of the Christmas pictures, your gonna fit in well here. And you get Dental and about 30 paid holidays". I think all parent from all schools should unite, and pack the Board Meeting. This could have happened at any of the schools. This is truly an outrage. Parents of Walnut Street, please feel free to let us know if you need our support, we will certainly do anything for you to help.

I have to Agree with Ed when the school was notified they should have sent a mass email or mass phone call to those parents,I dont see why we need a school spokesperson and pay them 90 grand thats crazy this school system in the whole should be looked at whose getting paid what, run background checks on them yearly.. I say as a whole even if you children dont go to walnut show support to the parents that do and everyone in the town should attend

http://tomsriver.patch.com/articles/toms-river-schools-staff-meets-with-faculty-contacts-parents-after-custodian-arrest

"At no time did any of thesse activities occur on district property.............." Makes me wonder, did they check his phone for photos? Hope he did not take pics of these kids on his phone, but is a possibility.....just saying....

A matter of fact-Now that I think of it for 90 Grand a Year she should have called every one of the parents from Walnut School.. After the Ritacco fiasco the system needs to be looked into !!

Blame the schools, blame Tammi Millar and Rosselli, blame the media ( I would agree they should scrutinize and screen sensitive material ), but my question is....how did the media get this info in the first place? You would think stuff like this would not be released until........What is the correct time line here? Would the Patch tell us were they got the scoop? Would this be so important to the public (of course to the parents) if it were not for the Ritacco situation?

I'm not a parent at Walnut St of Walnut St school but another school in the district and I agree did they check his phone and how can they be 100% sure it wasn't any district child???!!! I sure hope he didn't cover any other school in the event of someone's absence.

Exactly HR!!! Same thing I was wondering. How horrible and gross and I feel for all the parents at the school and any other parent and child who may have been photographed!!!

Every employee of every school district in New Jersey is required to pass a background check -- no exceptions. That being said, just because someone passes a background check doesn't mean he isn't doing something criminal -- it just means he wasn't caught and doesn't have a police record. Your next door neighbor could be watching kiddie porn or operating a meth lab in his or her basement and you wouldn't even know it.

It is the PARENT'S responsibility to talk to their children and teach them about the bad things that happen in this world; the school district can only do so much. We are responsible for our childrens' safety and well-being, and only we can protect them.

A side note to "trparent" -- you have spent many years on different web forums being a cheerleader for this school district, condemning those who felt things were not quite right in the school district -- all while Ritacco and his cronies were robbing us blind. This town, and the school district, are slowly but surely going downhill due to drugs, crime, violence and corruption. If you want "positive" news, go to the school district web site and you'll get nothing but sunshine and rainbows without the underlying scum that is starting to come to the surface in Toms River.

MJR now you will have someone to tidy up you 8X4 cell..kudo's

I did receive a call on my cell phone at 7:15 PM last night regarding the incident. Yes, it was a robo call. Check with the office as to what phone number you have listed as your main number. A couple of years ago I missed a few calls because I listed my house number. After missing a couple of calls I changed my number to my cell. Haven't missed a call yet.

Parents were notified last night via robo calls. Just because you did not get a call doesn't mean they didn't try to reach you. I'm sure Mr. Smith has enough to deal with than having to listen to sceaming parents wanting to know why they were not notified.

Right on Stacey.

Folks should keep in mind that there are 900 STUDENTS in the Walnut Street School, which is a lot of notifications, even for robo calls.

Second, there seems to be a lot of people on this board ready to convict this guy without benefit of a trial. He has been removed from contact with children in the school district. If and/or when he is convicted, his name and likeness should go on the appropriate websites. Until then, he is innocent until proven guilty, at least as far as the law is concerned.

And before anybody jumps down my throat, I AM a Walnut Street Parent. I am confident school officials are doing the best they can. If you think they aren't, feel free to complain in the appropriate forum, which would be a school board meeting, not just on a comment thread on a community news site.

Funny thing he is also a EMT with Manchester first aid

Stacey, isn't that part of Mr. Smith's job? To listen to any and all complaints that any parent may have? I agree that this is not Mr. Smith's fault that this message did not go out but, isn't that Mr. Smith's job to listen to any and all of the parents complaints and concerns? Personally I feel that the people who dropped the ball on this one was both Mr. Roselli and Ms.Millar, as the super and the communications person they should have put these call out to the parents of the kids who attend this school. The district could have placed these robo calls out to the parents as soon as the Prosecutors Office notified them of the arrest. I have a question to ask and it is if the media outlets were notified about this arrest at 4p.m. yesterday then why did it take the school district until 7p.m. to place these robo calls?

they called at 7pm because most parents aren't home immediately at 4pm.

I don't like the school system, but what do you need the phone call so fast for? You read more information on here then what was in the phone call anyway.

Even if they did call you earlier you people still would have found something to complain about

I think the important point is they arrested and removed this man. Notifying parents came next. At this point there is no proof that any children at the school were involved. I'm thankful for the wonderful staff and principal we have a Walnut. They would never have allowed this man to work there if they knew. Social media is going to be a real problem in the future. That sick bastard used it to do unthinkable things. The Patch used it to break the story, so they would be first. Leaving people to complain the school wasn't fast enough. Just be thankful he is removed and applaud the people who made it possible.

Kelly, I did not hear about this arrest by the Patch. I was coming home from the food store and I heard it when the 4:00 new came on the radio. I could only imagine how a parent might have felt hearing about this while they were either working, driving home from work or out running their errands. I know that I would have been furious!! I think this is where a lot of the people who are posting on this blog are upset with the fact that they had to hear it from either the radio or read it on the Patch and the Asbury Park Press and it took the district until 7p.m. to notify the parents when they had a meeting with all of the employees of the Walnut Street after school. Like my previous post states everyone is worried about the children.

You guys are complaining about 3 hours. Get a life.

I feel for the parents who have young children in the system, no matter what school, but they did this as FAST as they could to STOP any threats on these children by this pervert ! I agree the Super should have made the call and not Tammy, the buck stops with him, he should have lead the way to speak to anyone involved , personally , not a school spokes person, this was/is much to serious to let an under ling speak on behalf of the district ! He was the right choice to make these calls..period !!!!! Just my 2 cents , i don't have a dog in this fight, but I can put myself in your place as I am a parent & would do anything to protect my child !!!!

I understand that people, especially parents, are disturbed that something like this can happen in their school district. I am disturbed that things like this happen all the time and people, especially parents, only take notice to a problem once someone else has pointed out the problem. So, now that the problem is pointed out we can all tear Steve apart for something that no one has proven. The only thing in these posts that is proven is, yes, he is an EMT at Manchester First Aid. Thank you Brett Pierce for pointing this out. Now for some other proven facts. Seven years ago Steve went through a background check to work in the school system. He got the job, his background was clean. Two years ago the State of New Jersey ran a background check. He became a NJ State Certified EMT and spends his free time VOLUNTEERING to make the community safer. His background was clean. Upon joining his first aid squad another background check was done, clean again. That would be three for three. In May of 2011 Michael Fressola, Mayor of Manchester Township, awarded Steve a Meritorious Service Award for saving the life of a choking victim that turned into CPR. This was done on his spare time. What have all you people done with your spare time other than sit on The Patch and APP.com and rip him apart when you don't know him or the facts.

Didn't this guy work at North Dover as Night custodian a few years back then was transferred??????

these people need to be destroyed,they are a disease and can't be rehibilitated,what is this one,two,three strikes crap,make it one and done as a deterrent!!

After reading alot of your posts. it has occured to me that mob mentality dose realy exist. Hay lets get out the pitchfork and get some torches and head to the jail for a lynching. tisch passed al the background checks BOB he did not have a record. Second What ever happened to inocent UNTILL proven guilty. Well that went out the window. lets see what els. Oh i know alligations dose not mean guilty. um what els um I know no images of the school children where present.. not preditory no children were hurt. oh Wait under the new law anyone with pictures of naked children like the ones you have of your child in the bath tub are concidered child porn. so dose that make you and your parents smut peddlers? think on that one before you go hunting someone. because under the law, you are all guilty of child porn and if you send a cute picture to your parents if florida thats concidered porn trafficing. welcome to the new police state of america. enjoy your stay.

were not present damn typos.

People are so ignorant, after reading all these posts, you all just assume he is guilty. Not for anything, but a million different things could have happened here. The community doesn't have all the details yet, there can be so many unknown X, Y, Z factors. No one ever clicked a link on their computer by accident, and got linked to some bogus porn site, or anything like that? What if something like that happened here, and that site was flagged by the FBI, and his IP address got recorded, and they looked into it, and it just showed in his history. I get being disgusted of the situation, because I'd be worried if my child went to school there and this happened, but I'd also want all the FACTS opposed to being a Frankenstein mob.

Relative or Friend Much Chris .. Please they found evidence of Child Pornography. HELLO.......... Forget the typos no one is a rocket scientist here .. We as a community are worried about not just our own children but all the children .. Forget the typos remarks English Grammar remarks .. Theres alot more to this story I am sure thats going to come out.. Shame on him Clicked the wrong link my behind it happens yes but im sure they investigated it before they CHARGED HIM END POINT..