2 more North Kingstown coaches accused of inappropriate behavior with student athletes

NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (WLNE) — Two more coaches within the North Kingstown School Department are facing allegations of inappropriate behavior.

In a letter that attorney Tim Conlon sent to to the U.S. Attorney Kevin Hubbard, Conlon said he discovered two more coaches were acting inappropriately with young girls.

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.

According to the letter, the middle school coach, who was also a DJ at middle school dances, would have girls “twerking” at school dances.

The letter also contends the track coach would also have female track athletes take off their shirts to have them run in just sports bras and conduct inappropriate stretching exercises.

In the letter, the high school coach is accused of spotting female athletes by putting his groin in girls’ faces or being pressed up against them from behind.

Conlon said these allegations took place the same two decades that basketball players were told Thomas would be asking them if they were “shy or not shy.”

“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.

Along with the letter Conlon provided to the US Attorney, he also provided several witness statement that go into more detail of the reported inappropriate actions of the coaches.

The revelations announced in the letter comes after interim Superintendent Michael Waterman placed two district employees on leave in May.

A request for comment to the school district’s attorney has not been returned.