Amanda Milkovits
Staff Reporter at The Boston Globe
Journalist in ⚓️ Rhode Island for @bostonglobe. @FiveFreedoms member @IRE_NICAR Tips: [email protected] BlueSky: @amandamilkovits.bsky.social
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4 days ago |
bostonglobe.com | Amanda Milkovits
WARWICK, R.I. — A former theology teacher at a prominent all-boys Catholic high school in Rhode Island says he was fired and defamed by the school and Diocese of Providence after accusing them of failing to investigate a teacher’s use of a classroom computer to solicit male prostitutes and arrange sexual encounters with younger men.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Amanda Milkovits
WARWICK, R.I. — A new Family Court judge plans to hold a trial in September to decide whether the grandparents of a toddler over the objections of her father. Judge Felix Gill will also decide whether to hold the father, Scott Naso of Portsmouth, R.I., in contempt for not following another judge’s order from last September allowing his late wife’s parents to have supervised visits with their granddaughter.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Amanda Milkovits
SOUTH KINGSTOWN — Aaron Thomas, the once-celebrated North Kingstown High School basketball coach, was found not guilty on charges of second-degree child molestation and second-degree sexual assault for his “naked fat tests” of teen male student-athletes. However the jury found Thomas guilty on two counts of misdemeanor battery. A jury in Washington County Superior Court returned the verdict on Monday, after deliberating since Wednesday.
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3 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Amanda Milkovits
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. — Aaron Thomas, the once-celebrated basketball coach at North Kingstown High School, designed his own fat-testing program so that he could abuse and sexually assault naked teenage boys, a state prosecutor told a jury Tuesday. “He’s not a pioneer. He’s a predator,” special assistant attorney general Meagan Thomson said in her closing statements.
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3 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Amanda Milkovits
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. — A lawyer for Aaron Thomas, the once-celebrated North Kingstown High basketball coach, told a jury Monday that the way Thomas performed his self-designed “naked fat tests” on teen boys over 28 years was not a crime. “The state’s case is very strong on negative optics, but I would suggest to you that the state’s case is weak on actual evidence of criminal conduct,” defense lawyer John Calcagni III said in his closing remarks on Monday.
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