Warwick school principal , Colleen Mercurio, victim of sexual McCarthyism

Warwick police charge ex-principal with failing to report child abuse

This is sexual McCarthyism gone berserk . Colleen Mercurio was in all probability just being nervously cautious.

 [ "It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children. And with good reason, for hardly a week passed in which The Times did not carry a paragraph describing how some eavesdropping little sneak —  'child hero' was the phrase generally used — had overheard some compromising remark and denounced its parents to the Thought Police . "]   FROM " 1984 " by George Orwell .

Colleen Mercurio