Rita Diesi (50), was arrested on Tuesday, January 18, 2022, in connection with an ongoing child abuse investigation, by the Highspire Borough Police Department. Diesi is a certified home healthcare worker, and witnessed the abuse of several children in a residential home, where she provided one-to-one therapeutic support to an individual in that home for many years. Diesi saw first-hand and was told by the children about the abuses that were taking place by their mom, and she failed to report that the abuse was happening inside the home to police. Diesi, being a mandated reporter, has been charged with three (3) counts of Endangering the Welfare of Children, Failure to report child abuse.