Aaron Thomas resigned from North Kingstown High School, where he coached and taught since the 1990s, in June after the accusations were made public.
The Rhode Island attorney general's office is investigating a former high school basketball coach accused by former players of forcing male-student athletes to undress in front of him so he could conduct what he described as body fat tests, the Associated Press reported. His accusers say he has been performing the so-called tests for years while alone with athletes.
John MacDonald, Thomas' attorney, said that the ex-coach did conduct the tests using skinfold calipers, which are used to assess skinfold thickness in order to estimate body fat. These tests were done with parental consent, MacDonald said, citing hundreds of consent forms obtained by Thomas., did not mention that nudity would be involved in the tests. MacDonald acknowledged this, and said that conducting the tests was easier for Thomas when the players weren't wearing clothes.
Jennifer Lima, a member of the North Kingstown School Committee, said this week that her now-adult son recently told her that he was checked by Thomas. She said it's possible she signed a form for fat testing, among all the forms parents sign for kids playing sports, but she did not consent for him to be undressed.
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