(NECN: Josh Brogadir, Brookline, Mass.) - Police are investigating after a former Brookline, Mass. school employee was charged with aggravated statutory rape.
Charged is 29-year-old Carlos Morales, who had been working in the after school program at a few schools in the district. The judge has sealed the documents, so not much is known about his alleged transgressions.
Morales, a former employee of the Brookline Public Schools, has been charged with aggravated statutory rape against a minor.
He worked in the after school program at Driscoll School, a kindergarten through eighth grade school, and a couple of others in the district including Pierce and Devotion.
A former co-worker would only tell me he worked at Driscoll last year and that his colleagues were just hearing what happened and processing the information.
Morales is also a real estate agent. His Keller Williams page says he was born in Boston, went to high school in Marlborough, and college at UMass Dartmouth with a double BA in Writing and Literature.
The district released a statement, saying in part that it is "currently identifying students who may have had contact with Mr. Morales and is in the process of contacting the families of those students directly."
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They add that the alleged incident did not happen in school property.
Parents NECN spoke with are pleased with the way the district is handling this, but so far, know very little about the allegations.
"My reaction was, well, this is what happens. Thank God it wasn't anybody I knew or anything like that. I didn't feel like they were mishandling it or anything like that. It's one of the first times this has happened here, but it has happened around unfortunately," said Brookline parent Lee Wetzler.
Morales is being held without bail until a dangerous hearing in one week.
