First, the principal kept the offender's presence secret for a year.
When he finally did “come clean (only after having been prodded by
distraught parents), he further deceived parents by claiming, with no
apparent basis, that the offender was "in the first percentile" of child
molesters who were rehabilitated. (According to one news account, the
man remains “registered as a level II sex offender, meaning he is
considered at moderate risk to reoffend.”)
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