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High School Coach Charged With Allegedly Molesting Students After Making Them Strip For 'Body Fat' Tests

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A former high school basketball coach in Rhode Island has been charged with child molestation and sexual assault after authorities discovered he’d been running a disturbing “fat-testing” program. Aaron Thomas, a 55-year-old man from North Kingstown, Rhode Island, is being charged with allegedly engaging “in sexual contact” with two minors.

Thomas is a former teacher and boys’ basketball coach at North Kingstown High School, where he worked from 1990 to 2021. Related: Honey Boo Boo’s Much Older BF Was Once Arrested & Charged With Statutory Rape! According to WPRI-TV, former students at the school claimed Thomas would allegedly convince student-athletes to “strip down to their underwear” in a closet in the boys’ locker room.

The disgraced coach apparently used the ruse that he was measuring the athletes’ body fat percentages. Students told the outlet the man would ask them if they were “shy or not shy” as a way to convince them to strip.

One unnamed former student spoke anonymously to the TV news outlet. In a heartbreaking statement, he recalled doing as told because of the pressure he felt and dreams he had about playing basketball for the well-known program: Ugh… According to a release published on Thursday by the office of Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha, Thomas is being charged with second-degree child molestation.

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