Nichols was quickly suspended without pay by the school, and later banned from the grounds.

According to the New York Post, his 15-year-old victim – not a student at the school where he worked – said he raped her multiple times over a six-month period in 2008 after having impersonated his own son on social media platforms Facebook and MySpace.

The ex-teacher would also reportedly watch the teen engage in consensual sex with another male, while ordering her to tell people “she wanted” to have sex with him if anyone asked.