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Coach Resigns After Naked Picture Appears On Facebook
Coach Resigns After Naked Picture Appears On Facebook - Portland News Story - WMTW Portland
Coach Resigns After Naked Picture Appears On Facebook - Portland News Story - WMTW Portland
SOUTH PARIS, Maine -- The Oxford Hills School District’s football coach resigned on Monday morning amid the uproar that was created when he accidentally posted a naked picture of himself on his Facebook page last week, according to Superintendent Rick Colpitts.
Colpitts confirms that the district has accepted Paul Withee’s resignation.
Withee had been working as the district’s football coach since last March and had been teaching math and science at the middle school since the beginning of this school year.
Colpitts says Withee meant to send the picture privately to his girlfriend but accidentally posted it publicly on Facebook last Tuesday.
The picture was online for about 10 minutes before Withee took it down, Colpitts said.
The incident was reported by the parent of a student who had seen the picture.
Colpitts says it is not against school policy for teachers to be friends with students on Facebook.
He says the school resource officer had been notified and the district had begun its own investigation, but Withee’s resignation means that the investigation is no longer necessary.
Paris Police Chief David Verrier says the department talked with the district attorney's office and decided not to press charges because this was an accident.
A man inside Withee's Norway home would not answer the door.