Ex-employee accused of fondling students loses foster kids
BURIEN, Wash. - Two foster children have been removed from the home of a former substitute stadium manager for Highline's Memorial Field who's accused of fondling dozens of teenage students, state officials said.
Sherry Hill of the state Department of Social and Health Services disclosed Thursday that the ex-manager, Jayson Boehm, has been licensed as a foster parent since April 2009, and got two foster kids last summer.
But both were removed from his home at the end of April, when the state Department of Health began investigating allegations that Boehm fondled students, performed physical examinations on students and gave injections without being licensed to do so.
Since then, he has been fired and his state licenses have been suspended as the investigation proceeds.
Hill said removal of the foster children is a standard practice whenever there are "questions or concerns about actions of a foster parent outside of the foster home."
The ages of the foster children were not immediately available.
The state Department of Health says Boehm conducted physical exams of more than two dozen male and female student athletes and fondled many of them. Boehm also falsified physical exam forms to make it appear a licensed physician performed the exams, the department said.
According to the state investigation, Boehm charged the students $5 for the exams.
In one case, during a boxing match in March at a high school for a non-district event, Boehm allegedly touched the genitals of a boxer who just needed treatment for a bloody nose, according to the department. Boehm also allegedly used a needle to inject the boxer with an unspecified substance.
The case came to the attention of district officials when a school nurse contacted her supervisor after noticing that Boehm had written a medical excuse for a student.
Around the same time, a King County sheriff's detective alerted the district that they were investigating Boehm for inappropriately examining an athlete in a Police Athletic League competition.
Highline Public Schools spokeswoman Catherine Carbone Rogers said the district fired Boehm when they learned of the allegations, and he has been barred from school property.
As a substitute stadium manager, Boehm was to provide logistical support for activities at Memorial Field, which is adjacent to Highline High School in Burien. He had also been contracted to provide first aid at athletic events and to give first aid training to coaches and PE teachers, which he was qualified to do as a state licensed emergency medical technician.
Boehm had also served as a volunteer for Evergreen High School athletic teams, the district said.
Boehm has not been arrested or charged.
Sherry Hill of the state Department of Social and Health Services disclosed Thursday that the ex-manager, Jayson Boehm, has been licensed as a foster parent since April 2009, and got two foster kids last summer.
But both were removed from his home at the end of April, when the state Department of Health began investigating allegations that Boehm fondled students, performed physical examinations on students and gave injections without being licensed to do so.
Since then, he has been fired and his state licenses have been suspended as the investigation proceeds.
Hill said removal of the foster children is a standard practice whenever there are "questions or concerns about actions of a foster parent outside of the foster home."
The ages of the foster children were not immediately available.
The state Department of Health says Boehm conducted physical exams of more than two dozen male and female student athletes and fondled many of them. Boehm also falsified physical exam forms to make it appear a licensed physician performed the exams, the department said.
According to the state investigation, Boehm charged the students $5 for the exams.
In one case, during a boxing match in March at a high school for a non-district event, Boehm allegedly touched the genitals of a boxer who just needed treatment for a bloody nose, according to the department. Boehm also allegedly used a needle to inject the boxer with an unspecified substance.
The case came to the attention of district officials when a school nurse contacted her supervisor after noticing that Boehm had written a medical excuse for a student.
Around the same time, a King County sheriff's detective alerted the district that they were investigating Boehm for inappropriately examining an athlete in a Police Athletic League competition.
Highline Public Schools spokeswoman Catherine Carbone Rogers said the district fired Boehm when they learned of the allegations, and he has been barred from school property.
As a substitute stadium manager, Boehm was to provide logistical support for activities at Memorial Field, which is adjacent to Highline High School in Burien. He had also been contracted to provide first aid at athletic events and to give first aid training to coaches and PE teachers, which he was qualified to do as a state licensed emergency medical technician.
Boehm had also served as a volunteer for Evergreen High School athletic teams, the district said.
Boehm has not been arrested or charged.
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