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Woman pleads guilty NOTICE:NONDISCRIMINATORY POLICY AS TO STUDENTS In accordancewithIRS regulations, allADVIS memberschoolsadhereto and supportthe following #Statement of Nondiscrimination as to Student to crashingday-care Enrollment" as thefundamental position they advocate. For information regarding aspecific school!snondiscrimination policy, please contactthe school directly.The following schools admitstudentsofany race,color, national and ethnicorigin to allthe rights,privileges, programs, and activities Thatsent the sedan speeding ADVISisa501(c)(3)nonprofit By Vinny Vella organizationcomprisedof generally accordedormadeavailable to studentsofthese schools. They do over the concrete barrier in the not discriminateonthe basis of race,color,national and ethnicoriginin STAFFWRITER 130 independentschools in parking lot and crashing intothe , NewJersey, administration of theireducational policies, admissionspolicies,scholarship exterior wallofthe daycare. In- Delaware, andMaryland. and loanprograms, and athletic andother school administeredprograms. MAYFAIR woman plead- side, 17 children were nappingon ed guiltytosimpleassault cots in the room the car entered. Thursday, 10 months after AbingtonFriends School Gwynedd MercyAcademy The QuakerSchool at Horsham A Five were injured, withmost Academy of NotreDamedeNamur High School Raymond &RuthPerelman she mistook her gaspedal forthe suffering contusions,bruising, Academy of theNew Church HarrisburgAcademy Jewish DaySchool brakeand droveher BMW intoa and concussions.One 4-year-old The AgnesIrwin School The Revolution School Bucks Countyday care, injuring sufferedmuch moreserious AIMAcademy Sacred HeartAcademy Bryn Mawr fivechildren inside. Ancillae-Assumpta Academy Hill Top Preparatory School Saint BasilAcademy wounds, including alacerated liv- Sahar Bahbah,52, entered the Archmere Academy The Hillside School Saint Edmond!sAcademy er,fracturedpelvis, and broken ATGLearning Academy The HockessinMontessori School SanfordSchool pleabeforeBucks CountyCourt ribs thatrequired months of phys- Holy ChildAcademy The School in Rose Valley JudgeGary B. Gilman,who said icaltherapy,accordingtoDeputy BenchmarkSchool Holy ChildSchool at Rosemont The ShipleySchool thatalthough the crash was District AttorneyRobert James. Bryn Athyn Church School Holy GhostPreparatory School Solebury School caused by her “stunning negli- BuckinghamFriends School The IndependenceSchool,Inc. Springside Chestnut Hill Academy gence,”she hadshown remorse “This is acase wherethe defen- CambridgeSchool Jack M. BarrackHebrew Academy St.Andrew's School forher actions. dantlackedcomplete situational Centreville LaytonSchool The JanusSchool St.Anne!sEpiscopal School awareness,” James said. “She ChapinSchool KimbertonWaldorf School St.James School “The miracle is thatnoone was seemed to showmoreconcern Christina Seix Academy Kohelet Yeshiva St.Joseph!sPreparatorySchool killed,” Gilman said. “This was an ChurchFarmSchool La SalleCollege High School St.Peter's School about making adelivery.” accident, but it is every parent’s Community PartnershipSchool LancasterCountry DaySchool Stratford Friends School worstnightmare.” The mothers of the injured chil- Cornerstone Christian Academy Lansdowne Friends School The SwainSchool The Crefeld School The LaurelSchool of Princeton TALK School Gilman sentenced Bahbah to 45 dren appeared in Gilman’scourt- room to describe those injuries, Cristo ReyPhiladelphia High School The Lawrenceville School The Tatnall School months of probation—nine DelawareCountyChristian School MalvernPreparatorySchool Tower Hill School months foreachchild hurt in the as well as the anguish theysaid DelawareValleyFriends School The Meadowbrook School United Friends School crash.She must also takeasafe their children still feel. Theirsons DevonPreparatory School Media-ProvidenceFriends School UplandCountry DaySchool drivingcourse and complete 100 and daughtershavetrouble sleep- Doane Academy Merion MercyAcademy Ursuline Academy hours of communityservice. ing in their bedsalone, and have MileStone Academy The VanguardSchool, struggled to complete remote ses- The The Miquon School AProgramof Valley Forge Throughaninterpreter, Bah- FrenchInternational School MontgomerySchool Educational Services sions withtherapists over video. bah tearfully apologized to the of Moorestown Friends School Valley Forge Military Academy mothers of the victimsassembled Shivaun Yo ung choked back Friends'Central School MoravianAcademy VillaMariaAcademy HighSchool inside Gilman’scourtroom,ap- tearsasshe recounted the frantic Friends School Haverford Mount Saint Joseph Academy The WaldenSchool callshe received from the day Friends School MullicaHill NazarethAcademy The Waldorf School of Philadelphia pealing to themasaparent her- Friends SelectSchool NewSchool Montessori Waldron MercyAcademy self. She saidshe,too,has been careonthe dayofthe crash,and Newtown Friends School West ChesterFriends School traumatized by what she called a her hurried triptoAbington Hos- Norwood-Fontbonne Academy The West HillSchool terribleaccident. pital to see her son. Germantown Friends School Orchard Friends School West NottinghamAcademy “WhateverIsay, it willnot take Gesu School The PenningtonSchool Westfield Friends School “Hewas such asweet littleboy GirardCollege The PennsylvaniaSchool WesttownSchool thisday away,” Bahbah said. “I beforethis,” she said. “Hestill is a GladwyneMontessori forthe Deaf WilliamPenn Charter School would neverwish this on your chil- sweet littleboy,but he’sterri- Goshen Friends School The PerkiomenSchool WilmingtonFriends School dren, justlikeIwould neverwish fied.” The GraysonSchool The Phelps School WilmingtonMontessori School thisonmykids.” Greene Street Friends School The Philadelphia School Woodlynde School Despitetheir pain, Yo ung and Greene Towne Montessori School The PilotSchool,Inc. The WyndcroftSchool Bahbah was working forthe the other parents seemed to for- Gwynedd Friends School PlymouthMeeting Friends School York Country DaySchool food-delivery service Grubhub on giveBahbah, and lookedtomove Gwynedd-MercyAcademy Princeton DaySchool YSC Academy Feb. 27,whichtookher to Chil- on from the traumaofthatFebru- Elementary Princeton Friends School dren of AmericaDaycareinUp- ary day. per SouthamptonTownship, ac- cording to investigators. “Therehas been enough suffer- ing,”Young said. “Wedon’t want AssociationofDelaware Valley Independent Schools As she gotout of her BMW,Bah- to see anyone sufferanymore.” Finding theRightSchool Just GotEasier!Visit our Websiteand usethe FREE SearchTool. bah realizedshe hadnot put the Website: www.advis.org · Follow us on Twitter@advischools car intopark and panicked, inves- tigatorssaid, stepping on the gas [email protected] pedal insteadofthe brake. ^610-313-8020 "Vellastrations

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