Category Archive for : ‘PRINCIPAL’

AP

Dwight Bernard, a former high school principal, was indicted Wednesday on charges that he failedto report on-campus sex crimes to protect a star running back who eventually led his team to astate title. Bernard, the former head of Northwestern High School, turned himself in after theindictment was released. The misconduct charge dates back to last September, when AntwainEasterling, then an 18 year old senior football player, allegedly had sex with a 14 year oldfreshman on the floor in a school bathroom. It was described as consensual but, because of thestudents’

New York Post

Frank Mobilo, a 47 year old principal of a Passaic County middle school, was acquitted yesterdayof molesting a 13 year old girl in 2003 during a Jet game at the Meadowlands and on the ride homein his mini-van. He would have faced up to 6 1/2 years in prison if convicted of criminal sexualcontact and child endangerment. The girl testified that he touched her thigh several times, twicebrushed his arm against her breasts and, in the car, made her touch him, causing her to wipe herhand on her

The state Supreme Court upheld a ruling that found a Bergen County school board liable for the actions of Samuel Bracigliano, a principal who took sexually provocative photos of more than 100 boy students.  Yesterday’s unanimous decision held that a trial-court judge acted properly when he entered a verdict against the Elmwood Park Board of Education for failing to act despite overwhelming signs that the principal was involved in strange and aberrant behavior.  Bracigliano had been the principal of the Gilbert Avenue Elementary School for eight years when he was