Providence lawyer Timothy Conlon said Friday that he released redacted emails from a former student-athlete, another student-athletes fat-test data, and a statement in response to the School Committees request for information. Try plastic surgery for autographs, Fan brings Olympian Mary Lou Retton to tears, RISPCA has nearly 30 guinea pigs up for adoption, February vacation events around Southern New England, How you can help those affected by Station fire, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. The North Kingstown school district has been under fire for its handling of a former high school basketball coach. 6 seed, URI mens basketball hoping to avoid winless road, URIs Tammi Reiss named 2023 A10 Coach of the Year, Honoring Black History: Sharing Our Stories, 2/24/2023: Rep. 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WebSmithfield High School Barrington Blackstone Valley Prep Mayoral Academy Burrillville Central Falls High School Chariho Classical High School Coventry High School Cranston East Cranston West Cumberland High School Davies Career & Technical High School East Greenwich High School East Providence High School Athletics Exeter West He is not facing any criminal charges. He pointed out that the statement shows that former students reported incidents to North Kingstown officials in 2018. Rhode An ongoing investigation of former coach Aaron Thomas has lifted the lid off allegations against two other coaches in the North Kingstown School District, which parents and students say fostered a poisonous sports culture that they were helpless to stop. (401) 268-6267 Although the school department ultimately removed that teacher from his coaching job in North Kingstown after the mother threatened to obtain a restraining order he went on to coach in two other school districts in Rhode Island, and still works as a teacher, said lawyer Timothy J. Conlon. Although the school department ultimately removed that teacher from his coaching job in North Kingstown after the mother threatened to obtain a restraining And, the lawsuit also alleges that Thomas is not the only coach at North Kingstown who has been allowed to abuse a position of power. The boys had kept notes in a Discord subchannel. I dont buy for a second the coaches didnt know, said one former student-athlete, who said he was fat tested at 14 years old during the early 2000s. The victory was the 200th in the career of head coach Bob Simeone, who was saluted Tuesday night at home before win number 201. Prior to hiring all our teachers, we conduct thorough and legally-mandated background checks and professional references are explored as part of our efforts to hire quality, safe faculty. A request for comment to the school districts attorney has not been returned. (401) 268-6266 Among other things, those tests included getting into various positions naked and during the course of some of them, Thomas was pressing on the inside of my groin with his thumbs, a former student-athlete, identified only as John Doe #22 said in a statement included in the report. He played at the University of Rhode Island and, following graduation, began teaching and coaching at North Kingstown High School. Heres what they had to say. 4 Ponaganset, 62-57, in the 2022 semifinals.No. North Kingstown High School150 Fairway DrNorth Kingstown, RI 02852(401) 268-6236(401) 268-6210, Principal The Diocese of Providence said it had no idea that its new middle school social studies teacher at Monsignor Clarke School in South Kingstown, who was hired just this fall, had been forced to resign from North Kingstown High School in June over allegations of performing body fat tests on the groins of naked teenage boys. School Nurse bill, sponsored by Republican Senator Jessica de la Cruz, companion bill sponsored by Democratic Representative Julie Casimiro, placed both men, as well as an administrator, on leave in May. Some are still working at the high school or Davis Middle School, others have moved on to other school districts or retired. The Diocese of Providence was informed today by the Rhode Island Office of the Attorney General that an investigation has been opened into allegations of misconduct concerning a teacher at Monsignor Clarke School in Wakefield while he was a teacher and coach at a different, non-Catholic school, said diocesan spokesperson Michael Kieloch. McGuirl is not expected to attend. WebFull time: 42 hours per week (Monday and Tuesday 9a-7p, Wednesdays 10a-6p, Thursdays 9a-5p, Fridays 9a-3p)Essential Duties and Responsibilities Recruit, hire, train and develop a high performing staff consisting of Assistant Managers, Member Service Representatives, Trainers and Custodians. 15 Smithfield lost to No. I think thats the key issue here, Duggan said. David Nyblom - a three-time Rhode Island High School Boys Basketball Coach of the Year was arrested on Thursday. 1 North Kingstown lost to No. }Customer Service, North Kingstown High School basketball coach Aaron Thomas during a game. NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. High school basketball coach Aaron Thomas had been invincible for so long. This information again relates to practices that are reported to have gone on for years, and indeed decades, but that only underscores how important it is that these problems get fully and finally flushed out, Conlon wrote in statement. Every month for my entire time at NKHS Thomas brought me into his office (protected by CCTV) and asked me to get naked, then touched me all over my body. Addressing the public directly for the first time since revelations that high school basketball coach Aaron Thomas conducted naked fat tests on athletes, the embattled superintendent of schools on Tuesday defended his actions as questions continued to swirl about who knew what, when. The matter was turned over to the North Kingstown Police Department who conducted an investigation while the district began its own investigation. Read more. NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. When she first read about the teenage boys whod kept a pedo database on a teacher who they thought was a creep with their female classmates, it took a moment for the young woman to realize they were at her old middle school. Read more. According to his biography, he first coached at Hope since 1989. There were coaches in the locker room, on buses, at tryouts. Deans Read more. Read the statement released by the North Kingstown School Department: Mr. The athletic department will also use an app for communications by fall. If there was any doubt, his 17-1 record against fellow public schools and 2021 Division I Super Bowl title solidified it. NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. There was so much about the retired judges findings about the once-celebrated high school basketball coach that made them sick. However, the school department said Thomas resigned in June. The decision wasnt easy, but Fran Dempseys decision to step down as head coach of the North Kingstown football team was made with the future in mind. I didnt want to tell them before Thanksgiving, Dempsey said, in case it didnt go the way I planned.". Conley shared those emails publicly on Friday. The Globe Rhode Island contacted multiple former administrators, teachers, and sports officials who supervised or worked alongside Thomas at North Kingstown High School over the last 30 years. Upon receiving the information, the district immediately placed Mr. Thomas on an administrative leave, and subsequently the School Committee voted to terminate him at the conclusion of the academic year (the earliest opportunity per RI Law). As protesters rallied outside, school committee members met to discuss investigative proceedings, job performance, and potential litigation over allegations that Thomas, had for more than 20 years urged male student athletes to strip naked for body fat tests he conducted on them in a small room off of his office. Earlier stories, in chronological order, are below. School District Chief Operating Officer Mary King told the Town Council during Fridays budget meeting that she moved up her retirement to June, instead of December. the teenage boys whod tracked the teacher, the teenage boys whod kept a pedo database on a teacher, documenting how a teacher at Davisville Middle School, statement posted on her campaigns Facebook page, school department to turn over all of the records, the allegations that lawyer Timothy J. Conlon. Dempsey hails from Hazelton, Pa., an area that treats football like a religion. The boys were in sixth grade when they became uncomfortable with the way their teacher, who was also a coach, treated girls in their class. And then, he homed in on one of his former players: There is a kid, and I know who it is, who is out to get me. The allegations are laid out in a letter and signed statements that lawyer Timothy Conlon sent Thursday to Assistant US Attorney Kevin L. Hubbard, who is working with Assistant US Attorney Amy R. Romero in the ongoing investigation into the Thomas complaints. Sign up to get breaking news and interesting stories from Rhode Island in your inbox each weekday. He served as an assistant under Gilmartin for eight years and, with Gilmartin knowing that he wanted to stop coaching once his son graduated, was groomed to be the programs next head coach. The middle school teacher, who is not named, was coaching the pre-teen girl when her family said he became fixated on her and made arrangements to be alone with her, according to Conlons letter. People are screaming at me, [holding] the signs What if it was your kid? " Lima said in an interview. Dr. Christopher Duggan, a pediatric gastroenterologist and nutrition physician at Boston Childrens Hospital and a pediatrics professor at Harvard Medical School, told the Globe that theres no reason for people to be unclothed during these types of tests. I NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. An explosive investigative report to be discussed during a North Kingstown School Committee meeting Wednesday evening shows that multiple school officials administrators, athletic directors, and coaches were aware for years that former North Kingstown High School Basketball Coach Aaron Thomas was conducting fat tests alone on male student-athletes, but didnt stop him. Attend all professional development, team planning and data analysis meetings. Dr. Barbara Morse In a statement to the media, Waterman said that he would report the findings of the investigations to the school committee and the school community. Within days of the Boston Globes exclusive story about the teenage boys database, the young woman came forward with allegations of harassment and bullying by the same teacher at Davisville Middle School. NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. When he left North Kingstown High School in February 2021 while under investigation for performing naked fat tests on teenage boys, basketball coach Aaron Thomas took with him reams of documents with information about students hed coached during his more than 30 years at the school, according to court filings late Wednesday. Ive been bleeding black and gold with teaching for 12 years and coaching for 11 and helped Joe build the program up from a winless team to the best public school in the state, Dempsey said. A former North Kingstown High School boys basketball coach, Aaron Thomas, is accused of telling students to strip naked for fat tests in Rhode Island. He was the focus of sportswriter Bill Reynolds 2017 book, Hope: A School, A Team, A Dream.. There, alone with Thomas, they would have to remove their clothes and underwear so Thomas could do a body fat test, using skinfold calipers to pinch and explore the skin near their scrotum, their groin, and their buttocks, some of Thomas former players told The Boston Globe in multiple interviews over the past several months. The North Kingstown Police Department and the attorney generals office brought the charges against Thomas, who will be arraigned on Aug. 19 in Washington County Superior Court. The Rhode Island Attorney Generals Office confirms that former North Kingstown High Basketball Coach Aaron Thomas is under investigation. Courses are offered at most high schools, CCRI's four campus locations, and various locations throughout the state. They told her that other student-athletes considered the body-fat testing something they had to do. placed two district employees on leave in May. You have 20 years of history of people being uncomfortable with and seeing behaviors that anyone should be uncomfortable with, in the open, in the school, and the behaviors were not addressed, because the students were not comfortable in the environment they were in, Conlon said Wednesday. HOME 2-2 AWAY 5-1 NEUTRAL 0-0. Mr. Thomas resigned from the North Kingstown School Department on June 24, 2021, prior to the end of the NKSD investigation, ending any further action by the North Kingstown School Department. The Globe Rhode Island contacted multiple former administrators, teachers, and sports officials who supervised or worked alongside Thomas at North Kingstown High School over the last 30 years. Elizabeth Parvo-Brown The school department said it turned the matter over to the North Kingstown Police Department. The North Kingstown High School coach, who is accused of conducting naked fat tests on students over the course of nearly 30 years, was terminated in 2021 A championship coach, a top fundraiser for school athletics, the face of the North Kingstown basketball program -- no one questioned what he was doing with student-athletes or why he was conducting his fat tests on them. A lawyer for former North Kingstown High School athletes has filed a court action over former high school basketball coach Aaron Thomas removal of records from the school. Thomas pleaded not guilty before Judge Melanie Wilk Thunberg, who set his bail at $10,000 personal recognizance and ordered Thomas have no contact with the two alleged victims. No. During the Nov. 29 meeting, a parent alleged that her sons had been subjected to the coachs naked fat testing of student-athletes and that it continued even after he was told to stop in 2018. Read more. Jennifer Lima, who voted to terminate Thomas in February, said she made her decision to recuse after receiving input from the Rhode Island Ethics Commission. NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. The interim school superintendent announced late Friday night that he has placed a teacher accused of stalking a middle school girl on leave and ordered an internal investigation. Read more. Nyblom was the varsity coach in North Kingstown in the 1980s. Is there any validity with having people take all their clothes off so you can measure skinfold and thigh circumference? 15 Smithfield lost to No. Read more. NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. A second former student athlete who said he was subjected to high school basketball coach Aaron Thomas naked fat tests has filed a lawsuit against the school committee and former school officials and more are expected to follow. Its hard to balance. The North Kingstown High School baseball team will defend its state title after it defeated Portsmouth, 4-2, on Friday to complete a sweep of the best-of-three semifinal series. He is the former coach. He spoke with both Thomas and the athlete, then described what he had learned to then-principal Denise Mancieri and said, Ive got it under control.. I am a hundred percent sure, she said, when one council member questioned her decision. In late October, when the accusations against Thomas became public along with the phrase he used to coax boys into taking off their underwear, Are you shy or not shy? Lima told the Globe that her oldest son revealed to her for the first time that it had happened to him, too. They saw how their students struggled with their mental health. In an 80-page investigative report released Monday, retired Superior Court Judge Susan McGuirlcq took a broad look at the systemic failures that allowed former coach Aaron Thomas to conduct naked fat tests of teen boys for decades. Some said he would also ask them to do stretches or duck walks while naked. I love coaching football and its probably the hardest decision Ive made, but I want to be a good father and be there for my kids.. Phil Auger said at a North Kingstown school committee meeting that he was informed twice about Thomas body fat tests, once in 2018 and again in 2021. And most of all, how no students ever reported Thomas to any teachers, administrators, coaches, or parents because his behavior was considered a rite of passage to play ball, the school culture discouraged reporting, and, for boys, its difficult to come forward about sexual misconduct. Through his new lawyer, Timothy Dodd of Providence, Thomas is asking for the complaint to be dismissed. 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Amanda Lemos NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. The former high school athletic director accused last month in a lawsuit of fostering a culture that allowed basketball coach Aaron Thomas to conduct naked fat tests of boys has resigned as principal of a middle school on Cape Cod. 4 Ponaganset, 62-57, in the 2022 semifinals.No. If Thomas asked if a student was Shy or not shy? the student was expected to remove his underwear for the fat testing though, according to the report, some were permitted to place their hands over their genitals as Thomas pinched the skin of their inner thighs with skin fold calipers. (401) 268-6263 NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. A six-month-old investigation by the North Kingstown School Committee has just been released and adds more dramatic details to the swirling controversy of fired Coach Aaron Thomas and his "fat tests" on naked male high school students. I think thats the key issue here, Duggan said. Hear more by downloading the latest episode of Rhode Island Report, available on. NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. With the former high school basketball coach under investigation for naked fat tests of teen boys, and three school employees recently put on administrative leave for other allegations, interim Superintendent Michael Waterman said he is reorganizing the athletic department. This isnt true, high school principal Barbara Morse recalled Thomas saying at the time, according to an independent investigative report by lawyer Matthew Oliverio. 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Lanowy was one of several residents urging the town council Monday night to hire outside counsel to either conduct a separate investigation into Thomas or analyze the renewed external investigation by the school committee. NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) Over more than two decades as the boys basketball coach at North Kingstown High School, Aaron Thomas became Follow her on Twitter @AmandaMilkovits. It shouldnt matter if it was my kid or someone elses kid. We need to make sure its no one elses kid.. Counselors 152 - Landon Ward (North Pontotoc High School) 14-0, Jr. 160 - Eli Carwyle (North Pontotoc High School) 12-1, Jr. 170 - Maison Kleist (Vancleave High School) 26-13, Jr. WebFreshman Coaches: Junior Varsity Coaches: Varsity Coaches Mr. Adam Laliberte - Hd Coach Mr. George Oliver - Asst Coach Ms. Robin Ramey - Vlntr: Golf (Spring) Freshman The family told Conlon that the teacher had a history of similar behavior with other young female students he coached. Target 12 has independently verified that the investigation into Thomas is focused on skinfold caliper tests of body fat that he performed on some student athletes in North Kingstown over multiple decades. NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. With the former high school basketball coach under investigation for. Former North Kingstown High School head boys' basketball coach Aaron Thomas appeared on a Feb. 21, 2021, Roundtable episode of The Rhody Runback podcast. NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. Three months after a retired judge reported how Aaron Thomas was allowed to conduct naked fat tests of teen boys for decades, the Town Council still had questions Sep. 26 about whether school officials were making recommended changes. NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. The Town Council will publicly release on Monday a retired judges review of the investigations into former high school boys basketball coach Aaron Thomas and his naked fat tests.. Connect with him on Twitter and on Facebook. Asst. He said that he has been in communication with more people regarding Thomass actions, including students who said they had been fat tested as recently as 2020. With the summer stuff this year, I was bringing my daughters to practice, and some of the lift sessions, and it was great to have them around the program and they loved going. Conlon, the attorney represented alleged victims in the Aaron Thomas case, said he has received complaints about two additional coaches; one a middle school track coach and another coach at the high school. And, although the teacher wasnt publicly identified, the description of his actions sounded just like her former teacher and coach. The family told Conlon that the teacher had a history of similar behavior with other young female students he coached. 1998 - 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. | All Rights Reserved. But in response to questions from Target 12 this week, a spokesperson for Attorney General Peter Neronha, Kristy dosReis, said the investigation into Thomas remains under review.. Read more. The scandal that has shamed one of the top-ranked high schools in Rhode Island involves a small number of people, McGuirl wrote. Hed give them an out, one that few of the students felt they could actually take: Hed ask them, . We trust that this matter will be resolved soon and we will keep you apprised. suspend service verizon; get back whip laws wisconsin; is darwin watterson black; proof of publication los angeles; koboldkare steamunlocked; characters named adam. Coaches will be required to use the school districts email system to communicate with students and parents, Waterman said. After hearing concerns from the lawyer representing former and current student athletes, the Town Council voted unanimously to ask the committee about counseling for former students and to demonstrate the school district had put new policies in place. Even after the win over South Kingstown, Dempsey still had doubts but knew that his family had to come first. Retired Superior Court Judge Susan McGuirl was hired by the Town Council in November to analyze the findings of investigations into Thomas and accusations that he had performed body fat tests on nude teenage boys since at least the mid-1990s. It was open it was around the school my four years.. Thomas, who was served a subpoena at his familys home in North Kingstown, denied having any records, according to court documents filed Wednesday morning. WebA Hope High School teacher and former boys' basketball coach is facing assault charges following an arrest earlier this week. Read more. NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) It was a busy morning for first responders in North Kingstown on Wednesday. Is there any validity with having people take all their clothes off so you can measure skinfold and thigh circumference? NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) It was a busy morning for first responders in North Kingstown on Wednesday. That meant Thomas, 54, wanted the teenage boys to go to a small janitors closet or the little AV room attached to his office. Her 80-page investigative report, released in June, looked at the systemic failures of the North Kingstown School Department that allowed Thomas to have the teens undress for purported body fat tests that involved him touching close to their groin and having them do stretches naked. The decision by Monsignor Clarke to put Thomas on administrative leave came after Target 12 asked questions during the final stages of a months-long investigation into whether he acted inappropriately. We currently have a full-time substitute teacher in the classroom and are working to find a certified social studies teacher. Read more. Some said he would also ask them to do stretches or duck walks while naked. A spokesperson for state Attorney General Peter Neronha confirmed the investigation this week but could not provide details. SOUTH KINGSTOWN Aaron Thomas, accused of conducting naked fat tests on teen athletes for decades, was arraigned on Aug. 26 in Washington County Superior Court on felony charges of second-degree child molestation and second-degree sexual assault. Participate enthusiastically in structured and informal learning and development opportunities. Lynda Thibeault Former students alleged that Thomas had on multiple occasions asked students to strip naked in front of him behind closed doors for body fat checks. Told the Globe that her oldest son revealed to her for the complaint be. 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