How Teen Boys Took Down A Creepy Middle School Teacher Who Preyed On Female Classmates

A North Kingstown, RI teacher is now being investigated after a few middle school boys felt uneasy about the way he was interacting with their female counterparts and took the initiative to do something about it.

It began as early as sixth grade. The boys noticed behavior they weren’t comfortable with from the beginning.  On various occasions, they witnessed their teacher at Davisville Middle School, who was also a coach and involved in several extracurricular activities, leering at some of the girls, giving them pet names, and even prompting them to dance for him.  The boys, on the other hand, received the opposite treatment. They were met with cruelty and contempt from the educator.

Even worse, the teacher reportedly told the students that for nearly 30 years, he’s dealt with complaints from parents and there was nothing anyone could do to him.

Challenge accepted.

By seventh grade, the boys decided to take matters into their own hands and started taking notes and writing down in detail some of the things the teacher was saying and doing — particularly to the female students at the school.

In January 2021, they started what they called a “Pedo Database”  to document the teacher’s inappropriate words and actions after their attempts to get adults involved went unanswered.

It was awkward and made the male students in the class uneasy to see the girls agonizing with their out-of-line flirtatious teacher.

“Sometimes they’d laugh. Sometimes they just kind of just sit there awkwardly,” one of the boys shared. “Even the ones that said he was ‘creepy’ laughed because they were obviously not trying to tick him off or anything. So they’re just fake laughing, awkwardly laughing.”

“Other students noticed it too,” the boy went on to tell.

The small group of seventh-grade boys decided to stick up for the girls in their class.  The “Pedo Database” was created as a sub-channel on Discord and was named after their teacher. In the channel, they all posted the teacher’s creep moments and quotes for evidence.

“This is now the official chat that we will later use as evidence against [the teacher] about pedophilia in case anything does come up in the future and we do turn out to be right,” wrote one of the boys.

While COVID was forceful, and students had remote classes, they’d open the Discord channel on a split-screen and document the teacher’s comments as they came in:

“You all love me so choose love.”

“You gotta stand up and dance now.”

“Everyone “in bathing suits tomorrow.”

Once they returned to school in person, the boys took several notes to add to the channel later: “Flirting with one girl. Teasing another. Calling the girls “sweetheart” and “sunshine.” Asking one girl to take off her shoes and try wiggling her toes without moving her pinkies.”

One boy tells The Globe “I felt bad for [the girls] because sometimes it just seems like it was a humiliating thing. He’d play a song and he’d make one of them get up and dance.”

Once the school year was over, the boys informed the incoming students about the Discord channel and suggested they keep tabs on the teacher.  In total, there were eight boys involved.

In April of 2022, the teacher was escorted out of the middle school, as the Interim Superintendent, Michael Waterman placed the teacher on leave and was launching an investigation into the allegations that the teacher previously stalked a pre-teen girl who was a student at the middle school while he was her coach, and had been inappropriate with other girls as well.

The accusations were brought by lawyer Timothy J. Conlon, on behalf of the girl’s family, who previously complained to the superintendent.  It wasn’t until the family threatened to seek a restraining order for the teacher to stop coaching middle schoolers in North Kingstown.

According to school records, the teacher went on to coach in two other school districts, while still teaching at Davisville, earning more than $87,000 a year.

Conlon declared, that parents of another school district expressed to the North Kingstown family that the same teacher had coaching sessions in his basement and appeared to take a liking to a select few girls.

Although the teacher remains nameless, the community of Davisville knew exactly who they were referring to. At home, one of the boy’s mother’s suggested he come forward with information since people were asking.  At that point, he decided to tell his mother about the log his friends and him had tracking the teacher’s actions.

The boy’s mother shared with The Globe: “He’s always been kind, looking out for kids, even early on in elementary school, if he saw a teacher yelling inappropriately at another kid, it would really bother him.”

While she was very aware of the teacher’s “angry and mean” behavior towards the boys, out of concern, she complained to the school after her son spoke to her about it.  She says she was unaware of the other things that were happening in the classroom.

Finally, the boy’s mother got in contact with Conlon, and the “Pedo Database” is now evidence of the US Attorney’s Office, the State Department of Children, Youth, and Families, the State Department of Education, and lawyer Matthew Oliverio, who is administering the school’s internal investigation.

Superintendent Waterman stated on Sept. 8 that the teacher remains on leave, and his name has not been publicly released due to the ongoing investigations.  However, he is also sure that the parents and everyone knows who he is.

“Everybody has talked about it, since sixth grade, how much they’ve hated his behavior and all of that,” the boy said. “That’s also why I feel like even if their investigation finds nothing, putting him back in the school would be a disaster.”