Source with video.Tribune staff report
Published April 13, 2007, 9:47 PM CDT
Cook County sheriff's police are trying to figure out who recorded a south suburban school principal engaging in sex acts with two school employees on separate occasions in his office.
The sounds and images, burned to DVD, were mailed this week to parents and news outlets.
Leroy Coleman, principal of Sandridge Elementary School, near Lynwood, resigned Thursday, citing health reasons, said John Izzo, an attorney for the district. A female teacher resigned the same day, citing family illness, and a teacher's aide quit Friday without explanation, he said.
John Palcu, first deputy chief with the Cook County sheriff's police, said investigators were working with the state's attorney's office to determine if charges could be brought against any or all of the adults caught on video or the person who recorded them.
Palcu noted that parents of Sandridge students were concerned about the principal's lack of judgment and the fact that the sexual encounters could have happened while school was in session. If that's true, Coleman could face official misconduct charges, Palcu said.
Izzo expressed concern about the incidents on many fronts.
"Somebody without permission gained access to confidential district office space and planted a surreptitious recording device, and that's frightening," Izzo said. "There are confidential records there—student records."
He said no one at the district level had seen the DVD, but he was told the images could be a few months old.
The principal and the women are also to blame, Izzo said.
What would you do if you where one of the parents? Apart from the fact the people are fat and ugly would it bother you? Is it just 2 consenting adults having sex? or is it inexcusable to be doing this sort of thing in a school.