Stonington The school system has released documents that identify the Stonington High School coach fired in December 2019, for sending inappropriate Snapchat and Instagram messages to female students, as former freshman boys basketball coach Bobby Atkins.
Atkins is a 2016 Stonington High graduate who previously played on the boys basketball team and who was hired to coach the 2019-20 season for a stipend of $3,509.
In the recently released review conducted by the state Office of the Child Advocate into whether the school system followed its policy in handling sexual harassment complaints lodged against former teacher and coach Timothy Chokas, state Child Advocate Sarah Eagan revealed that the school system had fired an unidentified coach for inappropriately contacting two girls, one of whom was 15.