A Naperville North High School counselor and track coach has been charged with aggravated criminal sexual abuse after a parent notified school officials of a possible relationship with a student, District 203 Superintendent Mark Mitrovich said Tuesday.
The district’s news release said the employee, John Carbonaro, of Warrenville, has been suspended without pay and removed from all duties and responsibilities.
District spokeswoman Susan Rice said in an e-mailed statement that the district got information from a parent Feb. 17 about a “rumored inappropriate relationship” between Carbonaro and a student.
The district stated the student’s parents were contacted, as were as authorities, who opened an investigation.
The release indicated Carbonaro has been with the district since 2006 and passed a required background check when he was hired.
“When this came to light Friday morning, he was out of town,” Rice said, adding that he has not been on campus or in touch with the district since. She said he had taken personal time last week when the information was shared with the district.
He is expected to turn himself in Wednesday and appear in bond court that afternoon, said Paul Darrah, spokesman for the DuPage County state’s attorney’s office.
“We have been in contact with Mr. Carbonaro’s attorney,” he said.
School district officials said that counseling will be available and that parents were told of the situation via the school’s electronic communications system.
“Any situation that places the welfare of a student at risk is of the highest concern to any educator,” Mitrovich said in the statement. “It is for this reason that I am profoundly shocked and disappointed over the news that an individual within our school system may have violated this deepest of trusts.”
