STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A Staten Island school bus matron for special needs children pleaded guilty this week to criminal trespassing after she was accused of showing up to the home of a family from her route with a knife.
Joanne Dash, 59, of Beard Street in New Springville, has been ordered by the court — per the approval of prosecutors and after further investigation — to complete 16 courses of anger management as a means to resolve the case.
The defendant was facing the possibility of between five and 25 years in prison had she been convicted by a jury on the top count in connection with the Dec. 6 incident…