Six-term member of the school board sentenced for sexual assault of an eighth-grade boy 20 years ago. One year in jail seems too little to pay for a lifetime of doubt and guilt that no fourteen-year-old boy should have had to carry.
Apr 22, 2007 - Gregory Ingalls, 56, a math teacher at Spaulding High School, was arrested and charged with sexual assault over a student sex allegation dating back more than 20 years.
The accusation came from a 38-year-old former student who lives in Chicago and came forward after receiving counseling. The man contacted Barrington police earlier this month.
AKA: Greg Ingalls
Ingalls has been a Rochester school district employee since 1982 and is a six-term member of the Barrington School Board, which he once chaired. He also works as an adjunct professor at Southern New Hampshire University. Ingalls has been suspended.
May 9 - Ingalls waived probable cause in his court appearance on Monday. The case will now go to a grand jury. He is currently free on $20,000 cash bond.
Ingalls is accused of sexually assaulting one of his students more than two decades ago when, between 1984 and 1985, he allegedly drove a 14-year-old Rochester boy, a Spaulding student, to the apartment building he owned on Main Street in Raymond.
INDICTED: July 21 - From the Boston Globe. Ingalls was indicted on a charge of sexual assault. Ingalls also has served on the school board in Barrington, where he lives. He is listed as 2005 - 2007 board chairman on the Barrington School District Web site. Ingalls is scheduled for an arraignment hearing on Aug. 2.
NOT GUILTY PLEA Aug 2 - Ingalls waived arraignment and entered a not guilty plea. Next court date is Aug. 29 for a structuring conference.
GUILTY PLEA & SENTENCING March 7, 2008 - Ingalls pleaded guilty to felonious sexual assault. He was sentenced to one year in jail - not prison.
In his plea, Ingalls admitted to assaulting the student at Ingall's home in Raymond, N.H., between January 1982 and 1985.
In court, the prosecutor read a statement from the man, who now lives in Illinois, saying that what happened ruined his life and led him to attempt suicide.Ingalls was ordered to pay restitution to the victim for counseling. Ingalls' wife was in court for the sentencing.
Reams said crimes like this have a devastating and long-lasting impact.
"It tends to destroy children and rob them of their childhood and their adulthood, as well," he said. "It takes a lot of counseling to work themselves through it."
