Police: Timberlane teacher was fired twice before arrest

[TexasTowelie]

PLAISTOW — A Timberlane Regional School District official only contacted David Russell’s former employers after his recent arrest for assaulting a 15-year-old girl in his math class — not during the hiring process — new police documents explain.

Human Resources Director Dana O’Gara told investigators it was then she learned he was let go from two nearby school districts for inappropriate touching.

The Nashua School District reported, “Russell was let go due to touching young female students and thinking it was OK to give them therapeutic massages.”

North Andover schools “also let him go for touching,” the police report reads. He taught there for 23 years.

North Andover Superintendent Gregg Gillian said Russell was hired in 1993 and taught health for a year, then science until 1996, math from 1996 to 2009, and physical education from 2009 to 2016.

Read more: https://www.concordmonitor.com/Police-Timberlane-teacher-was-fired-twice-for-touching-girls-44266078

[Demovictory9]

1. therapeutic massage? ewww. poor girls

[TexasTowelie]

3. But that was what George W. Bush was giving to Angela Merkel.

[Demovictory9]

4. I think about that moment sometimes. lol.

[Demovictory9]

2. this guy engaged in behavior that should have raised red flags

Coakley eventually learned that on April 7, 2010, it was reported that Russell “gyrated” and humped a student.

“This turned into a report being made by numerous students to the North Andover Police Department of Russell looking down their shirts, cleavage area, and trying to look up their skirts,” Coakley’s report reads.

The case was closed April 9, 2010 — without criminal charges, according to records.


-----------
Another report, from 2016, says that a girl reported to her parents, police and principal that Russell followed her to a bathroom and told her to “keep doing your jumping jacks while you do your business.”