Schumm child-in-need-of-care hearings closed to public

Child-in-need-of-care hearings dealing with a number of children of Jonathan Robert Schumm and Allison Nicole Schumm are closed to the public.

Topeka City Councilman Jonathan Schumm, 34, and Allison Schumm, 32, were charged on Nov. 19 with one criminal count each of aggravated battery and, as an alternative, abuse of a child (torture or cruelly beating a child younger than 18), and four counts of endangering a child.