E.O. Smith School Coach and Teacher Aide Charged with Having Sex with 3 Girls

A man who was both a girl’s lacrosse coach and teacher aide at E.O. Smith High School in Mansfield has been charged with having sexual relations with three under-age students at the school, according to NBC Connecticut, which cited an arrest warrant.

NBC Connecticut gave this following account, based on the arrest warrant (which contains accusations not proven in court):

Geoffrey Justin Gillette, 22, of Coventry, became an assistant football coach in 2012 and was hired as a teacher aide in January 2013. He became assitant coach for the girls track team in the spring of 2013. By summer, he was in a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old member of the track team.

When students returned to school in the fall of 2013, the relationship ended and Gillette had sex with another student several times from February to May 2014. In April 2014, he had sexual relations with a third student. Two of the students told school officials about the affairs. In May, Gillette resigned, and school Principal Louis Deloreto contacted police and the Department of Children and Families.

Police begn investigating Gillette in May and arrested him on Oct. 28 on three counts of sexual assault.

In a separate matter, E.O. Smith girls soccer Coach Jeffrey Sirios was recently fired and arrested after police said he sent a short video of himself masturbating to a number of students on the soccer team. Sirios said he had meant to send the video only to his girlfriend and sent them to the team by mistake.

For more details about the latest arrest, see the NBC Connecticut report.

The Hartford Courant reports that all three girls were 17 years old at the time, and Gillette continued to have a relationship with one girl at least up to the point when police began investigating him. The newspaper, which also cited the arrest warrant, reported that the mother of that girl refused to speak with police.

The newspaper reported: “The warrant says that the mother of the third student spoke to a social worker with the state Department of Children and Families and said she would not allow her daughter to speak with state police or DCF about her relationship with Gillette. The social worker told police that the mother ‘does not wish to ruin her relationship with her daughter and that she is aware that her daughter is now in a dating relationship with Gillette,’ according to the warrant.”

For yet more details about the case, see the Hartford Courant article.