Principal's trips with girls raise concerns

[KG]

(creepy fucker)

http://www.sptimes.com/2003/07/24/Tampabay/Principal_s_trips_wit.shtml


By KELLEY BENHAM and CURTIS KRUEGER
© St. Petersburg Times
published July 24, 2003

A police investigation of Community Christian School principal Dick Baker is inactive, but not closed.

LARGO - The principal's invitation to some of the girls at his school read like this:

TO: THE PARENTS OF THE ROYAL PRINCESSES

FROM: THE KING OF CCS

I humbly request your permission for the princesses listed above to join me in a visit to a land where dreams come true . . .

May I have the honor of your daughter's presence for this princess reunion?

P.S. Glass slippers may be brought but no blue blood snootiness.

Some girls brought luggage to Community Christian School on May 16 for another trip to Disney with "the king" - principal Dick Baker.

But they never went. They talked to police instead.

One by one, Cinderella, Ariel, Belle and the others sat down in the school library with investigators. They answered questions about their principal - the one who gave them the nicknames, who treated them like family, who took a select group of girls on dozens and dozens of overnight trips.

The middle school-age girls told police they had been to Disney with Baker 20 times, 30 or 40 times. One girl said she had been 81 times. Sometimes they shared a room with him, but not a bed. Sometimes Baker, 52, was the only adult on the trip. He slept in Disney pajamas, one girl said.

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[arwalden]

1. Something's Just Not Right Here...

seriously!!

[Loonman]

2. Creepy

What a freakazoid!

[rfranklin]

3. What would Jesus do?

Forget the girls--Jesus would have invited all the boys for a pajama party!

[NJCher]

4. sounds like a case of arrested development

I think the guy has failed to mature emotionally and is stuck somewhere at the emotional age of around 7 or 8, prime territory for the Disney empire. Nine hundreds trips to Disney?

I also think he's probably a borderline child abuser--has managed to catch himself before he got any further.


Cher

[GOPisEvil]

5. OK - that made my skin crawl!

*heebiejeebies*

[duid12]

6. parents

WTF, what kind of parent lets their kids go on multiple overnight vacations with a sole male adult/teacher?

>>Board members and supporters have organized a prayer chain for him. They are asking people to pray that his true character will be revealed.

My guess is that his "true character" will be revealed too with a little more investigations...

[nuxvomica]

7. What a sad, disturbing story

I don't think it's fair to assume that this guy's an abuser but his behavior is inappropriate on the face of it. A sad fellow, but the following scene is almost comical:

Former teacher Barbarita Clark thought something was odd in her job interview. Baker didn't ask her much about her qualifications, she said. He asked her if she was more of a Tigger-type person or an Eeyore-type person. She was puzzled, but Baker determined that she was a Tigger person and gave her a stuffed Tigger when she left.

[Chicagonian]

8. Is it just me....

or does the guy look a lot like a younger Bill Oh'Really?

[peekaloo]

9. or a kinder, gentler

Quentin Tarantino.

In Disney parlance he's fuckin' Goofy!

[Chicagonian]

11. If Bill Oh'Really and Quentin Tarrantino had a love child-

[catpower2000]

10. Are these girls' parent fucking INSANE??

Their children should be taken away from them for reckless indifference.

Cat